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A Simple Task Made Complex: Types of Sentences
Looking for a lesson about differing sentence types? Use this lesson on compound and complex sentences in your grammar unit. After composing simple, compound, complex and compound-complex sentences individually and as part of a group,...
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Reported Requests and Orders
A lot of practice in writing exclamatory, interrogative, and imperative sentences is here. Writers change twenty direct speech sentences into reported speech. They create their own sentences in reported speech.
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Starters for 10
This presentation gives young writers ways to start sentences in interesting ways. They can use an adverb, an -ing clause, a simile, a connective, or a preposition. Learners make up sentences on the spot using each of these techniques.
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The Horrible House of Horrors
Young writers get to pair up and construct sentences that have specific elements. Each sentence needs to have two adjectives and one verb that both start with the letter "c." Then, they try again using the letter "d" as the starting...
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Extending a Simple Sentence
Here is a very nice presentation which shows students how to extend their sentences by incorporating adverbs and adjectives. After viewing what these words are and how they are used, pupils practice extending some sentences embedded in...
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Eliminating Wordiness: Exercise 1
In this writing exercise, students are given a series of sentences and asked to rewrite them to eliminate wordy phrases and clauses, repetition and passive voice.
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Sentence Fragments Exercise 2
In this sentence fragment exercise, learners are given paragraphs to proofread for sentence fragments. Students are given space to make revisions.
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Subject and Verb Agreement
In this subject and verb agreement worksheet, students are given sentences in which they must choose the correct verb form to agree with the subject.
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Quotation Marks Exercise
In this quotation marks worksheet, learners must edit sentences for quotation marks and underline words that should be italicized.
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Comma Exercise 5
In this comma exercise worksheet, students are given seventeen sentences to proofread and edit inserting commas where necessary.
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Comma Exercise 2
In this comma exercise learning exercise, students are given ten sentences to proofread and edit inserting commas where appropriate.
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Independent and Dependent Clauses
In this independent and dependent clause activity, students are given a sentence that is written incorrectly and must correct.
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Sentence Fragment Editing
In this sentence fragment activity, students are presented with 16 sentences. Students must determine whether the sentence is correct or a fragment.
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Run-ons, Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
In this sentence writing worksheet, students are given pairs of sentences with directions to form one new sentence using commas, semicolons and/or conjunctions. Students can self check or trade and grade using the answer key provided.
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Commas After Introductions Exercise 2
In this comma usage worksheet, students are given ten sentences that they must correct by placing a commas in the correct place. Students must identify whether there was an introductory word, clause or phrase in the sentence.
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Tense Consistency Exercise 2
In this tense consistency worksheet, students are given the beginnings to ten sentences along with a tense in which they must complete the sentence.
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Parts of Speech--Verbs
Verbs are the focus of this language arts worksheet. Students underline the verbs, or verb phrases, in 7 sentences, then make 2 original sentences with verbs in them. A good worksheet!
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Capitalization
In this capitalization worksheet, students learn about when to capitalize words in sentence writing and when not to. They then use what they learned to answer 12 questions. The answers are on the last page.
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Yikes! An Interjection!
In this grammar worksheet, students learn about using interjections in sentence writing. They then use what they learned to answer 9 questions. The answers are on the last page.
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Prepositions
In this grammar activity, students learn about using prepositions in sentence writing. They then answer 12 questions regarding prepositions. The answers are on the last page of the packet.
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Daily Writing
In this writing worksheet, students practice proofreading skills by using editing marks to fix one sentence, then rewriting it correctly. Students also examine a humorous picture and write what they think will happen next.
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Configuration Station #19
For this vocabulary worksheet, students study a word bank of 5 commonly used words. Students complete 30 questions: sentence writing, missing words, word search, alphabetical order, and illustrating.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion 16
Although this worksheet is labeled for intermediate English language learners, I'd argue the vocabulary is more appropriate for advanced learners. The pupil reads each sentence and selects the appropriate word to complete the sentence....
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Prepositional Phrases
Focus on prepositions and prepositional phrases, is the goal of this game of charades. The clues are based on maps that they have drawn out of a hat, and describe how to get to a certain location in a town using prepositions. Note:...