Students practice writing complex sentences by combining two sentences using a joining word of time. Students are provided the correct joining word to use on each prompt. This is activity 1 of 2 in the Time Conjunctions (Starter) series.
Students practice writing complex sentences by combining two sentences using a joining word of time. Students are provided the correct joining word to use on each prompt. This is activity 2 of 2 in the Time Conjunctions (Starter) series.
Students practice recognizing the difference between to, too, and two by rewriting sentences with the correct word. This is activity 1 of 2 in the series.
Students practice recognizing the difference between to, too, and two by filling in the blank with the correct word. This is activty 2 of 2 in the series.
Students practice writing irregular past tense verbs by rewriting sentences, changing the underlined present tense verb to past tense.
Students find and correct a variety of errors within a text.
Students practice writing a variety of sentence structures by combining two or three sentences using the method of their choice.
Students find and correct parallel structure errors within a text.
Students practice writing a variety of sentence structures by combining two or three sentences using the method of their choice.
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Students practice writing a variety of sentence structures by combining two or three sentences using the method of their choice.
Students practice writing a variety of sentence structures by combining two or three sentences using the method of their choice.
Students find and correct a variety of errors within a text.
Students find and correct a variety of errors within a text.
Students find and correct a variety of errors within a text.
This University College London site explains how to tell whether a word in the adjective position is an adjective or part of the noun. Includes follow-up exercise.
This section of an online English-grammar book introduces and provides examples of different types of clauses. Because this is from a British source, it uses different terms to identify the types of clauses, calling an independent clause, the matrix clause and the dependent clause, the subordinate clause, and identifying a third type, the superordinate clause. This is a 7-page tutorial on clauses and sentences; click through the page numbers at the top right to work through the tutorial.
Overview of nouns and rules for use. Contains information on forming plurals, count and noncount, pronouns, numerals as nouns, and gender. Exercises interspersed in material.
This page offers good information on participial adjectives. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
The section on Common Types of Writing Assignments is a particularly helpful piece of this site. Learn how to approach a wide variety of writing tasks from lab reports to literary reviews. Then use the rest of the site to learn how to polish your writing.