Curated OER
Gingerbread Baby Final Activity #11
Students are read the story "Gingerbread Baby". They write their own letter to the author telling her about their favorite part. They ask questions and hopefully they will receive the answers from her as well.
Curated OER
Parts! Parts! Who Has the Matching Part?
Fifth graders identify the subject part of a sentence. They receive randomly distributed teacher-made sentence parts. They have either a subject part of a sentence or the remainder of the sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Ex 2: Misplaced/dangling Modifiers in a Long Passage
Read about misplaced modifiers, and then practice by if the modifiers in twenty sentences are placed correctly. Feedback is provided after each sentence.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Writing Concise Sentences
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.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Ex. 1: Recognizing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
Read about misplaced modifiers, and then practice by if the modifiers in twenty sentences are placed correctly. Feedback is provided after each sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Dangling Modifier
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a dangling modifier in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Misplaced Modifier
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a misplaced modifier in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Modifier
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a modifier in the context of a sentence.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Avoid Dangling Modifiers
Modifiers are phrases, clauses, or even just words that add description. In clear sentences, modifiers are next to target words they are describing. Dangling modifiers are modifiers with no target to describe, which can confuse many...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Misplaced Modifiers Power Point
Learn about placing modifiers correctly in a sentence and practice with misplaced modifier questions that could be found on standardized tests.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
There are 5 exercises and accompanying handouts provided in which students read sentences and determine if they have misplaced or dangling modifiers. Correct answers are rewarded with sweet treats; incorrect answers with being swallowed...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Dangling Modifiers and How to Correct Them
A resource for learning about misplaced/dangling modifiers and finding and correcting them in your writing. Complete with examples and revisions.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Blog: Adverbs: What Do Adverbs Modify?
This blog focuses on adverbs, including what they modify, how to find them in sentences, degrees of adverbs, and examples of each.
Other
English Grammar 101: Adverbs Modifying Verbs
Learn how adverbs modify verbs in this concise lesson. Practice what you learn with a quiz which gives immediate feedback.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Exercise in Compound Nouns and Modifiers
An interactive exercise consisting of a paragraph with forty uses of compound nouns and modifiers. Students decide if each compound is written correctly or incorrectly.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: What Are Adjectives?
This blog article explains what adjectives are, what they can do in sentences, and provides examples of each.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Gerund Phrase
This grammar tutorial for understanding the gerund phrase demonstrates how to use gerund phrases properly in sentences.
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
British Council
British Council: Learn English: Comparing and Contrasting Modifying Comparatives
Students complete five sentences by dragging the correct comparative phrase into the box in each sentence. Students can check their answers and see their scores when finished with the exercise.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Adverbs: Adverbs Quiz
Answer questions about the part of speech modified by the adverb in each of the ten sentences in this self-check quiz.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Meet the Adjective
Identify the adjectives and tell what words they modify in this seven-question quiz.
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: 100 1000 (Part 1)
Practice spelling the Spanish numbers 100-1000. Transform the numerals to numbers that you place in front of the names of different zoo animals. Great practice with changing the endings on hundreds and the number one to match the nouns...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Ordering Adjectives From General to Specific
Adjectives modify nouns. In using more than one adjective to describe a noun, we need to make sure they are in the correct order-from general to specific. [0:40]