University of North Carolina
The Writing Center at Unc Chapel Hill: Passive Voice
How can you avoid the passive voice in your writing? Explore this website to learn how and why not to use this voice in your writing.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Past Perfect
Excellent explanation of the formation of the past perfect tense. Free, interactive activities include an online quiz and test for mastery. The printer friendly page makes a nice review master for students keeping a notebook.
Study Languages
Study Spanish: Present Perfect
A straightforward explanation of how the present perfect tense is formed with a printer-friendly page that is great for note keeping. One free online quiz and test evaluate mastery.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Past Perfect
This video lesson focuses on the past perfect verb tense; it defines perfect tense, participles, and past perfect. It explains the requirements to form a past perfect tense including the use of the helping verb "had." It offers practice...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Irregular Verbs
An extensive look at verbs in all their various forms and uses. A very valuable and easy to understand resource with many examples.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguish Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 3
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
Language Guide
Language Guide: Los Pasivos
Using a form of the verb SER and a past participle is one of three ways this grammar tutorial teaches the passive voice. In addition, the impersonal SE is used with examples, along with the impersonal SE plus an indirect pronoun plus a...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Auxiliary Verb
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an auxiliary verb in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Participle
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify participles in the context of sentences.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Participle
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify participles in the context of sentences.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Past Participle
View pictures and answer the questions relating to the picture in either the present perfect tense or using the past participle as an adjective. Click the "?" if you are uncertain about an answer.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: The Present Perfect Tense
Review examples and then complete three online exercises dealing with the present perfect tense. English translations are provided for some of the examples. The first exercise provides verb infinitives as cues for the present perfect...
Google
Google for Education: Present Participle
In this example students learn two special cases for the past and present participle of verbs. They reinforce their understanding by completing a Python program to correctly conjugate special cases of verbs.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Verb Forms
This page explains the five forms of verbs: root, third-person singular,present participle, past, and past participle and provides examples of each.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Hyphen With Noun, Adjective or Adverb and Present Participle
Rules and examples for using hyphens when writing compound adjectives ending in a past participle.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Conditional Sentences. Would Have in the if Clause
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies examples of conditional sentencs. The examples provided in this resource include the word if, the phrase would have, and a past participle.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Irregular Verbs: Rules for Use
Grammar rules are provided for irregular verbs. Includes examples and tables.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Regular vs. Irregular Verbs: Lesson 3
This lesson defines regular and irregular verbs and provides a list of common irregular verbs.
Other
Review and Practice: Past Participle
This site reviews the uses and the formation of the past participle in Spanish. After this review, the user may choose to complete practice activities to test comprehension.
Road to Grammar
Road to Grammar: Verb Forms
This interactive provides the base words of irregular verbs and asks students to type the past and past participle tenses of them in boxes.
Language Guide
Language Guide: El Participio Pasado
This grammar tutorial explains the formation of the past participle for ar/er/ir verbs as well as some irregular forms. A couple of examples are given to show the formation of the present perfect.
Other
Jefferson County School Dist.: Irregular & Helping Verbs
This site has an online slide show offers a drill on forming irregular verbs. One slide of 63 includes information on helping verbs. Last slide has links to some online practice for irregular verbs.
English Club
English Club: Basic Tenses: Regular Verbs
Notes and examples of verb tense including past, present, future, past participle, present participle, simple, continuous, perfect, and continuous perfect.
English Page
Englishpage: Irregular Verb Dictionary
An extensive list of irregular verbs, Gives the infinitive, simple past, and past participle. Also includes online flashcards and exercises.