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Handout
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on modifiers; it defines them and offers things to remember about them. It also provides three sentences for student practice in identifying them followed by answers and explanations.
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Towson University

Towson University: Self Teaching Unit: Avoiding Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on misplaced modifiers including adjectives, adverbs, phrases, and clauses and dangling modifiers. It discusses each, provides examples, explains how to correct them, and offers links to exercises and a post-quiz.
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Website
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 9.1: Parts of Speech

For Students 3rd - 6th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn about nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs through explanations and examples. Also learn to distinguish between words and phrases and between form and...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th
On this site a learner can click through a slide presentation for the definition and examples of each of the eight parts of speech, and read a poem to increase memory and understanding. Then view a series of video lessons on nouns...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's Going on and Where Am I?

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson, learners write a descriptive essay about an historical event as seen through the eyes of an alien from a different planet and time. The lesson encourages the use of colorful and exciting adjectives, adverbs, and verbs in...
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Other

Efl: Forming Comparative and Superlative Adjectives

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed for EFL students, this tutorial also provides a good opportunity for anyone to test understanding of comparatives and superlatives.
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them....
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Website
Road to Grammar

Road to Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
Students and teachers can find quizzes, vocabulary word search puzzles and self-tests for a variety of grammar topics: adjectives, adverbs, am -is or are, can and could, colors, countries and languages, and more. You can also find...
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Other

Spanish Comparatives and Superlative Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th
Side by side English to Spanish translations of comparatives and/or superlatives of adjectives, adverbs, nouns, and verbs. Other English expressions that may be confused with Spanish comparatives are also translated. Excellent reference...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parts of Speech

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This tutorial focuses on the parts of speech using 6 slideshow presentations. The first lists the 8 parts of speech and their functions; the next five discuss nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions individually. These...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parts of Speech

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on the parts of speech; it provides 6 short slideshows: the first is an overview of parts of speech, the other 5 are for each of the following parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and conjunctions;...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: What Are Modifiers? How to Use Them Correctly

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on modifiers including what modifiers are -- adjectives, adverbs, and descriptive phrases and clauses; misplaced modifiers and how to correct them; and limiting modifiers and how to use them. Examples are provided.
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Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Parts of Speech in Sentences: The Order of Operations

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this comprehensiv learning module students identify the parts of speech by following a certain order until each word in a sentence is labeled. In a variety of exercises, learners practice finding verbs, prepositional phrases,...
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Activity
Get It Write

Get It Write: Comparatives and Superlatives

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the difference between the comparative and superlative degress of adjectives and how to use them. Take the brief quiz to check your understanding.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Parallel Structure in Lists: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses the importance of parallel construction in lists. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Parallel Structure in Lists." L.9-10.1a Parallelism
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Activity
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: How Does a Sentence Make Sense?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource explains importance of the agreement of elements in sentences and covers agreement of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Exercises included. L.11-12.3a Syntax
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Double Comparatives and Superlatives

For Students 9th - 10th
This page focuses on forming comparatives and superlatives and the misuse of double comparisons and superlatives such as "most fastest."
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Handout
University of Washington

Mary Nell's Grammar Summaries

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Washington provides an excellent collection of grammar-related summaries. The collection includes material on verb tenses, agreement, noncount nouns, and many other topics.
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Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Infinitive

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an infinitive in the context of a sentence.
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Unit Plan
Study Languages

Study Spanish: Superlatives

For Students 9th - 10th
This online lesson is on relative and absolute superlatives. The lesson is thorough and easy to understand, with ample examples. A short test at the end of the lesson tests the student's mastery of this grammar principle.
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Activity
University of Texas at Austin

University of Texas: Francais Interactif

For Students 9th - 10th
This full-featured interactive textbook encounter utilizes French speakers in real life scenarios. Well structured for work on grammatical concepts (links to Tex's French Grammar), vocabulary, listening comprehension and exposure to...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: With Sense Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the use of adverbs and adjectives with verbs of the five senses and provides examples.
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Activity
Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Why write five paragraphs when you can say what you want to say in two? Learn how to make the most of your words and sentences to get your point across without being too wordy.

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