Grammar Resources

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7th Grade ELA Grammar Lessons

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Common Core Standards

Khan Academy - Introduction to Grammar - grammar overview

IXL (students can practice up to 20 questions per day without a fee)

Quizlet - lots of free practice exercise

Word Play - when you have mastered all our grammar exercises, try some of these challenging Word Play puzzles.

Pronoun Cases

WIKIHow on Who vs. Whom

Is Whom outdated?

Identifying Parts of Speech

Adjectives/Adverbs

Active/Passive Voice

Active vs. Passive Voice Video

Grammarly.com Passive Voice

IXL Practice

Hint - look for the word "by" to identify passive voice.

Verbs

Khan Academy Videos for Verb Tenses

Sentences:

Subject/Predicate Song

Subject/Predicate Practice

Complete Subject Practice

Quizlet Practice on Simple and Complete Subjects and Predicates

Quizlet Practice on Simple, Complete, and Compound Subjects and Predicates

4 Types of sentences Song

Quizlet on 4 Types of sentences

Simple or Compound Sentence Practice

Parts of Speech and Nouns

What are the Parts of Speech? (Brief overview of all parts of speech)

Parts of Speech Quizlet (test how well you know the parts of speech)

Nouns

Khan Academy Parts of Speech - Nouns

Schoolhouse Rock Nouns

• Common and Proper Nouns
• Grammar Flip Practice on Nouns
• Plurals, Possessives, Contractions
  • Possessive Nouns
  • Khan Academy - Plural and Possessive Nouns
  • Practice Quiz on Plural Possessive Nouns
  • Khan Academy - Introduction to the Apostrophe (includes contractions)
  • It’s vs. Its
• Concrete and Abstract Nouns (Khan)
• Khan Academy Practice on Concrete and Abstract
• Practice Concrete and Abstract
• Collective nouns
  • More Collective Nouns (a little juvenile, but lots more examples and practice)
  • Practice on collective nouns with verbs (these are tricky)!
  • More Practice (don’t cheat!)
• Two-Minute Teacher on Appositives

Khan Academy Appositives - Definition and Examples

Capitalization/Punctuation

How to Use a Period

Punctuation Rules!

Brief Summary of End Marks (Khan Academy - period, exclamation point, question mark)

The Comma (Khan Academy - commas as separators)

13 Comma Rules

Commas in Space and Time

IXL Comma Practice

IXL Comma Practice (space and time)

More IXL Comma Practice

Dashes, Hyphens, Parentheses, and Ellipses - cool pictures!

Formatting Dialogue in Narrative Essays

Optional videos:

The Oxford Comma (a little bit of history)

Period, Question Mark, Exclamation Point (This is a long video, but it gives good examples and editing practice.)

Apostrophes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6zzLAhEyqo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5sG_CkkAs8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M4EDrD3aBQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GiPxFvUUxs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M9cVwj3AtI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRGjQdHToNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhaa214UKvA

Dashes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLmDYzhv6Z0

Hyphens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgpExkmY6Y0

Ellipses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmRMfFVw6NE

Parentheses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJtaY-iZRvU

Colon

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/punctuation/the-colon-and-semicolon/v/linking-function-of-the-colon-the-colon-and-semicolon-punctuation-khan-academy

Semicolon

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/punctuation/the-colon-and-semicolon/v/introduction-to-the-semicolon-the-colon-and-semicolon-punctuation-khan-academy

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/punctuation/the-colon-and-semicolon/v/semicolons-and-complex-lists-the-colon-and-semicolon-punctuation-khan-academy

Italics and Underlining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqef1Wx4D6w

Quotation Marks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiXhK7aEuGY

Punctuation Rules!