Grammar

Parts of Speech Resources

Overview/Miscellaneous

• "Parts of Speech" via My English Pages
• "Parts of Speech Bell-Ringer [Template]"
• "Parts of Speech Study Guide (and Practice)" H.O.

Nouns and Pronouns

• Schoolhouse Rock! "A Noun Is a Person, Place, or Thing" (video)
• "What Is a Noun?" W.S.
• "Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns" W.S.
• Schoolhouse Rock! "Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla" (video)
• "What Is a Pronoun?" W.S.
• "Concept Attainment Strategy and Co-constructed Definitions" Activity (Pronouns and Antecedents)

Subjects, Predicates, Verbs, and Verbals

• Subject Definition & Examples via My English Pages
• "Simple Subjects" W.S.
• "Subjects in Unusual Order" W.S.
• Schoolhouse Rock! "Verb: That's What's Happening" (video)
• "The English Verb" (Verb Definition, Inflections, Agreement, Transitive Verbs, & Intransitive Verbs) via My English Pages
• "What Is a Verb?" W.S.
• "Finding the Verb Practice/Main Verbs and Helping Verbs Practice" W.S.
• "Recognizing Action Verbs" W.S.
• "Principal Parts of Verbs/Simple Tenses/Using Verb Tenses" W.S.
• "Verb Phrases" W.S.
• Schoolhouse Rock! "The Tale of Mr. Morton" (Simple Subjects and Predicates) (video)
• "Simple Subjects and Predicates: Finding the Verb and Their Simple Subjects"/"The Parts of a Sentence: Finding the Subjects and Predicates" W.S.
• "Agreement in Number: Making Subjects and Verbs Agree in Number and Correcting Agreement Errors" W.S.
• "Agreement Problems in Sentences: Making Subjects and Verbs Agree and Correcting Agreement in Number" W.S.
• "Problem Subjects: Using Verbs That Agree with Problem Subjects and Correcting Subject-Verb Agreement" W.S.
• "Compound Sentence Parts: Identifying Simple Subjects and Verbs and Using Compound Subjects and Compound Verbs" W.S.
• "Compound Subjects & Compound Predicates" W.S. (w/ Answer Key)
• "Ten-Minute Grammar: Days 1 & 3: Verbals, Gerunds, and infinitives"
• "Gerunds: Identifying Gerunds and Using Gerunds" W.S.

Direct and Indirect Objects

• "Direct and Indirect Object" Definitions and Examples via My English Pages
• "Nouns and Their Jobs: Identifying Nouns as Complements and Using Nouns as Objects of Prepositions" W.S.

Adverbs, Adjectives, and Prepositions

• Schoolhouse Rock! "Lolly, Lolly, Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here" (video)
• "What Is an Adverb?"/"Linking Grammar and Writing: Using Adverbs" W.S.
• Schoolhouse Rock! "Unpack Your Adjectives" (video)
• "What Is an Adjective?: Finding and Using Adjectives"/"Linking Grammar and Writing: Using Adjectives" W.S.
• Schoolhouse Rock! "Busy Prepositions" (video)
• "What Is a Preposition?" W.S.
• "Prepositions: Finding Prepositions and Their Objects"/"Prepositional Phrases: Finding the Prepositional Phrase" W.S.
• "Nouns and Their Jobs: Identifying Nouns as Complements and Using Nouns as Objects of Prepositions" W.S.

Conjunctions and Interjections

• Schoolhouse Rock! "Conjunction Junction" (video)
• "Conjunctions: Proofreading and Writing with Conjunctions" W.S.
• "Subordinating Conjunctions List" H.O.
• Schoolhouse Rock! "Interjections" (video)
• "Interjections: Identifying Interjections and Using Interjections" W.S.
• "Conjunctions and Interjections Practice" W.S.

Active and Passive Voice

• "Passive to Active Voice Conversion Practice" W.S.

C.U.P.S. (Capitalization, usage, Punctuation, and Spelling) and Writing Crimes Resources

Capitalization

• "Rules for Capitalization" H.O.
• "Names, Initials, Personal titles, Abbreviations, Family Relationships, the Pronoun I, Religious Terms, Nationalities, Languages, and Races" Packet
• "People and Cultures" W.S.
• "Geographical Names, Bodies of the Universe, Regions and Sections, Buildings, Bridges, Other Landmarks, Planes, Trains, and Other Vehicles" Packet
• "Places and Transportation: Capitalizing Names and Places" W.S.
• "Sentences, Poetry, Quotations, Outlines, Parts of a Letter, and Titles of Works" Packet
• "Proper Nouns" W.S.
• "Proper Adjectives" W.S.
• "Organizations and Dates" W.S.
• "Capitalizing Titles" via Quick and Dirty Tips: Grammar Girl
• "Words in a Title" W.S.
• "Proofreading Practice" W.S.
• "Ten-Minute Grammar: Capitalization - Day 2"
• "Ten-Minute Grammar: Capitalization - Day 3"

Usage

• "100 Words You Could Say Instead of Swag" via Watsky (video)
• "Affect vs. Effect" via Grammar Girl
• "Battle of the Commonly Misspelled or Misused Words"
• "Double Negatives" via Grammar-Monster
• "Dragged vs. Drug" via Quick and Dirty Tips: Grammar Girl
• "i.e. vs. e.g." via Quick and Dirty Tips: Grammar Girl
• "'In to' or 'Into'" via Quick and Dirty Tips: Grammar Girl
• "Likable vs. Likeable" via Grammarist
• "Who vs. Whom" W.S.

Punctuation

• "Periods and Other End Marks: Using End Marks in Writing and Using End Marks in an Outline" W.S.
• "Commas in Sentences" W.S.
• "Possessive Nouns" W.S.
• "Apostrophes" W.S.
• "Punctuating Quotations" W.S.
• "Punctuating Titles" W.S. (Quotation Marks and Underlining)
• "Punctuating Titles" W.S. (Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Using Titles in a Sentence)
• "Commas, Colons, and Semicolons Practice #1" W.S.
• "Semicolons and Colons" W.S.

Spelling

• "Battle of the Commonly Misspelled or Misused Words"
• "Ten-Minute Grammar: Homophones Lessons"

Writing Crimes

• "Writing Crimes Activity" W.S.

Sentence Types and Clauses

Declarative, Interrogative, Exclamatory, and Imperative Sentences

• "Kinds of Sentences: Using Different Kinds of Sentences" W.S.

Clauses

• "What Is a Clause?: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses, and Identifying and Correcting Fragments" W.S.

Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences

• "Simple and Compound Sentences: Identifying Kinds of Sentences and Combining Sentences" W.S.
• "Writing Good Compound Sentences / Writing and Punctuating Compound Sentences Practice" W.S.
• "What Are Complex Sentences?: Analyzing Complex Sentences"/"Linking Grammar and Writing: Using Compound and Complex Sentences" W.S.
• "Complex Sentences: Understanding Complex Sentences and Identifying Kinds of Sentences" W.S.
• "Sentences: Simple, Compound, or Complex?" W.S.
• "Compound-Complex Sentences: Identifying Clauses and Identifying Kinds of Sentences" W.S.
• "Compound-Complex Sentences/Four Types of Sentences #1 Practice" W.S.

Sentence Variety

• "A Strategy for Teaching Sentence Fluency" H.O.