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Eliminating Wordiness: Exercise 3
The focus of this writing worksheet is to have writers revise and edit a three-paragraph passage to eliminate wordiness and repetition. The paragraphs are quite long, and this should take most students quite a while to complete.
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SAT Identification of Sentence Errors Practice Test
In this SAT prep test worksheet, students read the example sentences presented in an SAT prep format. Students select the answer that identifies the sentence error to complete the 15 online exercises.
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Revising Paragraphs With Excessive Coordination
In this grammar worksheet, learners rewrite two paragraphs using various sentence structures to make each paragraph more coherent and interesting.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion 13
In this sentence completion instructional activity, students complete the sentence by choosing the best words to complete them. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Revising Sentence Fragments
In this revising sentence fragments online worksheet, 6th graders rewrite 5 fragments, adding a subject, a predicate or both to make a complete sentence.
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Revision Exercises
In this revision activity, learners choose the correct word to complete sentences and write the plural forms of words in pictures. Students complete 14 questions total.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion 15
In this sentence completion activity, students read the sentences and choose the best word to complete each sentence. Students complete 12 sentences.
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Advanced Sentence Completion: 15
In this sentence completion activity, students complete multiple choice questions where they fill in the blanks to sentences with one word. Students complete 10 sentences.
San José State University
Avoiding Nominalization
Improve syntax with this explanatory handout. It clarifies one way to make writing more precise: avoiding nominalization. This resource provides four ways to find and change nominalization problems and 10 sentences to correct. There are...
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Grammar Practice: Don't Get Frazzled over Fragments!
Following a brief definition of the required components of a complete sentence, and models of incomplete or sentence fragments, learners are asked to revise a series of sentence fragments into complete sentences. Suggested rewrites are...
K12 Reader
Add an Appositive
Kids demonstrate their understanding of appositives, what they are, where they occur in a sentence, and how they are punctuated, by revising a series of sentences and adding appositives.
K12 Reader
Order of Adjectives: Add Another
Some nouns need more than one adjective to adequately describe them. Using a reference poster that puts twelve categories of adjectives in order, class members fill in the blanks to complete eight sentences.
Sinclair Community College
Sentence Sense Editing Exercise
This one-page sentence editing practice is a beast! Grammar masters make corrections in punctuation and capitalization in a lengthy paragraph that is about writing process (how post-modern). This efficient resource can be used as...
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Revising Dialogue II
In this dialogue revision worksheet, learners revise a set of sentences so they sound more natural and fitting for the characters speaking.
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Punctuating Dialogue
What did she say? Invite your class to make sense of these grammatically incorrect sentences by adding in punctuation and capitalization. All of the sentences include dialogue, so learners will have to practice their knowledge about how...
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Revising With Precision
In this revisions worksheet, students fill in blanks in sentences, 15 total, with "vivid and precise" word. Students are instructed that they may use a thesaurus.
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Revision - Various
In this word order learning exercise, students put sentences in order, match phrases with words, insert question words into sentences, and more. Students complete 3 activities.
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Intermediate Sentence Completion: 37
In this sentence completion worksheet, learners complete the sentence with one word. Students answer 10 multiple choice questions.
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Sentence Fragments: Exercise 2; Proofreading
For this grammar worksheet, students proofread 5 short paragraphs while looking for sentence fragments. They use the space below the paragraphs to rewrite them with the revisions.
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Edit Sentences
In this sentences editing worksheet, students mark sentences as either being grammatically correct or incorrect, then underline mistakes in sentences. A website reference is given for additional resources.
McGraw Hill
Choosing Effective Details
In this sentence revision worksheet, students must incorporate the details given in order to create a vivid, more interesting sentence. Students may add or replace words as needed to make their sentences compelling.
McGraw Hill
Saying More with Less
In this sentence revision learning exercise, students rewrite each sentence to eliminate wordiness. Students are encouraged to use shorter, more concise terms and make each word meaningful in the sentences.
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Eliminating Wordiness: Exercise 1
In this writing exercise, students are given a series of sentences and asked to rewrite them to eliminate wordy phrases and clauses, repetition and passive voice.
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Revise for Parallel Structure
In this parallel structure learning exercise, students revise a set of 20 sentences for parallel structure. Page has links to additional resources.