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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Phrases: Prepositional and Verbal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers links to quizzes/exercises covering Prepositional and Verbal Phrases including participials, gerunds, and infinitives.
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Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Object of the Preposition

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an object of the preposition in the context of a sentence.
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Handout
The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page, from a site for University of Oregon journalism students, provides definitions of phrase, prepositional phrase, participial phrase, gerund phrase, and infinitive phrase. It also provides a brief description of how phrases...
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Activity
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Phrases

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a prepositional phrase that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good phrase can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Prepositional Poem

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The students have studied prepositions. Students will use the pen/highlighting tool to answer the review questions. As a culminating project they will create a poem showing that they understand...
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Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Phrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a phrase in the context of a sentence.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Commas After Introductory Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource explains how to use commas after introductory phrases in sentences.
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Other

Tameri Guide for Writers: Clauses and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The first half of this tutorial on clauses and phrases covers topics such as independent clauses, dependent clauses, adjective clauses, adverb clauses, noun clauses, essential clauses, and nonessential clauses. The second part discusses...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing Prepositions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This preposition practice activity provides a paragraph from a Hemingway short story. Students click on all of the prepositions used in prepositional phrases in the story. These words will appear in a box below. When finished they can...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

Elc Study Zone: Basic Prepositions

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This site explains the various uses for "in," "on," and "at" in phrases referring to transportation, time, and communications (TV, radio, etc.). Also links to a practice exercise.
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Handout
Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Noun Phrase

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a noun phrase in the context of a sentence.
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Handout
University of Texas at Austin

Ser and Estar One More Explanation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains the tricky grammatical option of the two "to be" verbs, ser and estar. The following situations are discussed: joining two nouns, adjective phrases, and prepositional phrases.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: What's My Position, Preposition?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives the students opportunities to work with prepositions and prepositional phrases. Students construct their own sentences using the phrases and prepositions, sing a prepositional song,...
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Interactive
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is a Phrase?

For Students 2nd - 8th
List the different types of phrases with examples and a fun exercise to try.
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Handout
University College London

University College London: Phrases Within Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section of a chapter from an online English-grammar book gives examples of and instructions for identifying phrases within other phrases.
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Unit Plan
University of Calgary

Univ. Of Calgary: Sentence Elements: Phrase Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section of an online grammar guide provides information on how different types of phrases can function in a sentence. It also offers an interactive exercise for identifying phrase functions.
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The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2

For Students 9th - 10th
A twenty-question quiz asking students to determine if the underlined phrase is an infinitive phrase, an appositive, a gerund phrase, a prepositional phrase, a clause, or a participial phrase.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.
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Website
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 10.1: Parts of the Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples to demonstrate how to identify independent and dependent clauses, prepositions and prepositional phrases, participle phrases and gerund...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th
A screencast lesson [2:26] introducing prepositions, showing how they begin prepositional phrases, and telling how to use prepositional phrases to add different types of details to sentences.
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Interactive
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Airplane Flight Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, Robert Burleigh's picture book entitled Flight is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
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Lesson Plan
Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Creepy Crawly Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson, the picture book entitled Toad, written by Ruth Brown, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will...
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Handout
Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry focuses on prepositions, prepositional phrases, and particles including defining and providing examples of each. It also offers an explanation of the difference between prepositions and particles and lists of common...
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Serendipitous Crazy Illustrations

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, Flotsam, written by David Wiesner, is used as a mentor text. Students will analyze the author's use of crazy illustrations and word choices. Students will then use a game on this web site where they will click to discover...

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