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Grammar-Quizzes.com: Adjective Clauses and Comma Usage
An online interactive quiz provides grammarians a chance to check their expertise with adjective clauses and comma usage. Many of the 15 examples deal with correct usage to avoid clauses that end in a preposition. Select the answer you...
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Using Commas: Interactive Practice
Learners read an overview of comma usage rules and then take an online interactive quiz. First they answer 10 multiple choice questions in which they identify the sentence with incorrect usage. On the next page, they retype a given...
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8 Comma Rules
In this comma rules worksheet, students read 30 sentences and add commas where needed. Detailed rules for the use of commas are on the page to help.
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Practice with Commas
Young grammarians practice comma usage in an interactive online quiz. Focusing mostly on restrictive/nonrestrictive clauses and the "FAN BOYS" rule, about joining two independent clauses with a conjunction, each of 10 sample sentences...
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Perfect Punctuation
In this commas worksheet, students use the correct usage of commas into different sentences. Students complete 11 activities for commas.
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Commas: Conventional Usage
This four-page handout explains in detail when and why to use commas. Three extended sentences provide an opportunity for practice splitting long sentences into shorter ones. Multiple examples help to clarify correct usage.
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Commas vs. Semicolons Lesson Plan
Ninth graders use correct punctuation when writing. After defining the use of commas and semicolons, they discuss how punctuation can help eliminate confusion. They listen to a letter, first with correct punctuation, and then without...
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Verbs And Tenses
For this verbs and tenses worksheet, students write a short sentence for each of the twenty verb tense directives and then underline the particular structure requested. This would be a good resource for reviewing each of the verb tenses...
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Punctuation: Making Sense of Writing
By fourth grade, most students are able to construct fairly well-thought-out sentences. Make sure your class is on the right track by frequently introducing concepts of proper punctuation. Each slide contains rules and examples...
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Punctuation
As a short review of punctuation, such as the use of commas and semicolons, this presentation could be helpful in an upper elementary classroom. The series of slides defines each term and provides examples.
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Standard Punctuation
Clear up the confusion that comes with the question, do I use a comma or a semicolon? This presentation provides examples and reasons for using particular end marks, apostrophes, commas, or semicolons. Information is presented in a well...
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Fifth Grade English/Language Arts Quiz
In this language learning exercise, 5th graders complete multiple choice questions about sentence structure, commas, parts of speech, and more. Students complete 15 questions.
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Pasta Punctuation
Fourth graders put elbow macaroni where commas and quotation marks are supposed to be in sentences. In this punctuation lesson plan, 4th graders use the pasta to define where punctuation is missing in sentence strips.
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Commas
Fifth graders discuss when a comma is necessary in a sentence. In this language arts lesson, 5th graders understand that commas are used as a pause and help the reader understand ideas better. Students find an example of each example...
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Punctuation
In this punctuation instructional activity, students connect 5 labels to the correct punctuation marks to what they show when used correctly in a sentence by drawing arrows to connect each one. Students fill in the missing punctuation...
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Intermediate Paragraph Correction
In this intermediate paragraph correction worksheet, students answer questions about errors in sentences. In this multiple choice worksheet, students answer eight questions.
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Comma Worksheet 7
In this grammar worksheet, students use commas to set off nonrestrictive elements, parenthetical expressions, transitional connectives and contrasted elements in eighteen sentences.
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Commas With Conjunctions Worksheet
In this grammar worksheet, students complete a variety of activities including identifying whether sentences are correct or have a comma splice, correct comma splices in sentences and insert a comma to combine two sentences or more for...
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Sentence Combining Exercise
For this grammar worksheet, students combine seventeen sets of basic sentences into compound and complex sentences using commas where needed.
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Separating Sentences With Commas and Conjunctions
In this grammar worksheet, students analyze and correct ten sentences with proper commas and conjunctions. Students share their answers with their classmates.
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Worksheet on Commas
In this grammar worksheet, students investigate the proper use of commas by reading 20 sentences and inserting commas when necessary. Students then read the comma rules and write a sentence using the rule indicated. Students read a...
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The Posse in Austrailia
Students explore the use of commas and periods. They compose a friendly letter without commas or periods to give to a partner to revise. In addition, they discuss how these punctuation marks helped readers better understand the meanings...
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Commas, Commas Everywhere
Learners explore all the uses of commas by finding sentences using commas and describing how they are used by comparing the sentences to the rules for utilizing commas. They create a poster with five rules of commas and examples for each...
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ESL: Match the Answer to the Tag Question
English language learners practice answering tag questions. There are 10 total, and as the learner clicks on the letter to select the answer, the score is posted at the top of the sheet.