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Avoiding Double Negatives
What double negatives are, and how to avoid using them, is the focus of this language arts activity. After a review of what double negatives are, students address 15 problems that have to do with double negatives.
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Double Negatives Worksheet 1
In this grammar learning exercise, students underline each correct word in parenthesis in twenty sentences. Students choose the appropriate words that are not double negatives.
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Double Negatives 1
In this identifying double negatives worksheet, students read sentences containing double negatives and rewrite them so they make sense using a single negative. Students rewrite seven sentences.
K12 Reader
Nightmare Negatives: Correcting Double Negatives
Banish those very scary double negatives with some grammar practice. Learners rewrite eight sentences so that they no longer contain double negatives. The resource includes a sample sentence with correction as well as some information...
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Grammar Practice: Avoiding Double (or Multiple) Negatives
After an explanation of double negatives, young grammarians rewrite a series of sentences to eliminate the double or multiple negatives. An answer sheet is included.
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Grammar: Double Negatives
In this grammar errors worksheet, students identify the nine double negatives in the newspaper report. Students must rewrite the report without the double negatives.
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No, Not, Never Avoiding the Double Negative
In this double negative words worksheet, students correct double negatives within 4 sentences by editing and rewriting the sentences.
McGraw Hill
Grammar Practice Workbook
To an English teacher, the only sound worse than nails on a chalkboard is a student using improper grammar. Make poor grammar a problem of the past with this extensive collection of worksheets that covers everything from sentence...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Multisensory Grammar Activities
Activate various learning styles while covering modifiers and double negatives. These activity ideas provides several sentences for examining each topic. After completing the activities, learners will know how to clarify meaning with...
Wesleyan College
Using Negative Words
For this grammar worksheet, students rewrite ten sentences by leaving out at least one negative word or by substituting ever for never or any for no or none.
Achievement Technologies
Language Arts Worksheets
Looking for some quick grammar warm-ups? What about handy spelling crossword puzzles? Find everything you need with a resource that contains practice worksheets for parts of speech, parts of a sentence, common grammatical errors, tricky...
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Lesson Plan for English-Using Negatives in a Sentence
Students explore "negatives" in English grammar. In this grammar lesson, students generate a list of "negative" words such as "not" and "nowhere." Students listen to the teacher read examples of sentences with double negatives, identify...
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Sentence Tanglers
Correctly writing sentences can be made easier when learners are given a list of common pitfalls. This presentation about subject/verb agreement, word usage, and irregular verbs could help students cement their grammar skills. There are...
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Total English Intermediate: Who Knows?
For this intermediate future tenses practice worksheet, students complete 8 sentences by following the prompts. Students also respond to 3 short answer questions pertaining to future tenses.
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The Third Conditional Exercise
In this online grammar worksheet, students read the sentences and fill in the gaps with verbs in the third conditional. Students complete 15 online exercises.
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Faulty Diction Worksheet 2
In this grammar activity, students rewrite twenty sentences making each one grammatically correct. Students rewrite all double negatives.
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Faulty Diction Worksheet 1
In this grammar worksheet, students rewrite twenty sentences with double negatives so each one is grammatically correct. Students share their rewrites with their classmates.
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Fourth Grade Editing- Sentences
In this grammar and editing learning exercise, 4th graders rewrite each of 10 sentences while making corrections. They capitalize words, add end marks, and correct double negatives.
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The Third Conditional Exercise
In this grammar worksheet, 8th graders focus on the past perfect tense. Students complete 17 fill in the blank sentences adding the correct verb conjugation to each and 3 short answer statements.
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Stating an Exception
In this but not or except worksheet, students choose the correct form of the words but not or except to complete the sentences. Students complete 14 sentences.
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Basic Linguistics: Fun Trivia Quiz
Meta-cognition can transform learning. If your syllabus includes linguistics to enhance learners' comprehension and expression in English, here is an interactive online quiz to assess what they have learned. Titled "Basic Linguistics,"...
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American Literature, The Earliest Days
Students prepare for and respond to literature selections. This package includes eleven lessons from the American Literature, The Earliest Days: Prehistory to 1750 each covering a different reading selection. Pre-reading and response...
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Grammarly Blog: Double Negatives: 3 Rules You Must Know
This page explains the 3 rules for double negatives: each subject-predicate construction should only have one negative form, a double negative is a non-standard sentence construction that uses two negative forms, and standard English is...
