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Which vs. That
Show your class the difference between which and that with this basic and straightforward worksheet. Using the context of each sentence, learners circle the appropriate word choice. Assign this as a warm-up activity or a short homework...
Curated OER
Which or That
In this language arts worksheet, students look for the places in language that differentiates between the uses of "which" and "that". They use the example for finding the grammatical pattern.
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Andrew Jackson and the Use of Martial Law and the Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Students explore the use of martial law at the Battle of New Orleans. In this Andrew Jackson instructional activity, students analyze primary documents pertaining to the move by Jackson to use martial law in the battle. Students then...
Curated OER
Bill of Rights
Students research, list, define and discuss all the aspects to the United States Bill of Rights. They assess their foundations by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson and reflect on all the conditions happening at the time period of...
Curated OER
Show Me the Money: Labor/Management Issues in Professional Baseball
Learners study the baseball players in the past and present and see how the union played a part in lives. In this labor lesson plan students analyze documents and identify the effects of the different markets on labor salaries.
Curated OER
Constitution Worksheet
In this U.S. Constitution worksheet, students respond to 63 short answer questions about Articles I-VII of the American plan for government.
Curated OER
Denying Civil Rights
Students continue their examination of the United States Constitution. Individually, they identify events in which the government has limited our civil rights and write an essay. In groups, they debate the issue and answer...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjective Clauses and Relative Pronouns 2
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjective clauses and relative pronouns; it explains what an adjective clause requires and the questions it answers in the sentence. It provides a list of relative pronouns: who, which, that, whom, whose,...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Comma Setting Off Restrictive Clauses
This page explains that restrictive clauses (essential to the meaning of the sentence) should NOT be set off by commas, and provides examples. It also explains that restrictive clauses often begin with the word "that."
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Grammarly Blog: Comma Setting Off Non Restrictive Clauses
This page focuses on understanding what a non-restrictive clause is and that it must be set off by commas. It explains that non-restrictive clauses often use begin with the word "which" and offers examples.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Clause Practice Exercise
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, but it provides great practice on recognizing clauses. The quiz is twenty questions long with multiple choice answers, looking at independent clauses,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Restrictive & Nonrestrictive Clauses & Punctuation
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you to identify a restrictive relative clause, also known as an essential clause, and a nonrestrictive relative clause, also known as a nonessential...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Clause Quiz 1
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on clauses where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an independent clause, an appositive, a restrictive clause, a non-restrictive clause, or a phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Clause Quiz 2
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on clauses where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an independent clause, an appositive, a restrictive clause, a non-restrictive clause, or a phrase.
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Legal Writing: Clauses Restrictive & Non Restrictive
This online writing guide for law students provides definitions and examples of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and instructions for punctuating clauses correctly. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Adjective Clauses
Defines and provides examples of adjective clauses (defining and nondefining or restrictive and nonrestrictive). Link to exercises.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses and Punctuation
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to edit an essay for correct punctuation of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and punctuation of contrasting expressions.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Restrictive/nonrestrictive Clauses and Punctuation
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to edit an essay for correct punctuation of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and punctuation of contrasting expressions.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Clauses: The Basics
This page, from a site for University of Oregon journalism students, provides definitions of a clause, an independent clause, and a dependent clause as well as some brief instructions on their uses. The page seems to contain some...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The King's English: Defining and Non Defining Clauses
This chapter from the 1908 book by H.W. Fowler defines, explains, and provides examples of two types of relative clauses, defining and non-defining (more commonly known now as restrictive and non-restrictive). The information is very...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Such as Comma
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about comma rules related to the phrase such as in a sentence. Examples of such as in non-restrictive clauses are included.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Comma Within a Comparison
This page focuses on the misuse of a comma by separating the two items being compared. No comma is needed before the conjunction in a comparison unless it includes a non-restrictive clause. Examples of both are provided.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas and Non Restrictive Elements
This lesson introduces how to use commas with non-restrictive elements.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas and Non Restrictive Elements: Thumbs Up Work
This lesson introduces how to use commas with non-restrictive elements.