Unit 4: Clauses

Unit 3: Phrases

Website explaining prepositional phrases:
http://www.chompchomp.com/terms/prepositionalphrase.htm

Website explaining participles & participial phrases:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/02/

Website explaining gerunds & gerund phrases:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/01/

Website explaining infinitives & infinitive phrases:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/627/03/

Website explaining appositives & appositive phrases:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/596/01/

Unit 2: Parts of a Sentence

Assignment

Prepare your presentation for the Parts of a Sentence and be prepared to present the week of . Include in your presentation:

• explanation of the part of the sentence
• examples
• written exercise(s) for your classmates to practice
• website where your classmates can find information and practice exercises

Websites your classmates used to prepare their presentations:

Subject: complete, simple, compound
http://chompchomp.com/terms/subject.htm

Subject: hard-to-find & inverted
www.fullspate.net/grammar/inversions_in_English.html

www.oestarapublishing.com/grammar/righthandsubject.html

www.englishrules.runs/writing/2005/subjects-and-verbs-and-sentence-order.php

http://aliscot.com/bigdog/agreement_sv.htm

Predicate:
http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl

http://www.suite101.com/

Transitive/Intransitive
http://www.testmagic.com/knowledge_base/toefl/exercises/grammar/transitive_intransitive/intro_02.htm
www.quia.com/quiz/653869.htm?APrand=1002518717

Other Websites for Parts of a Sentence

http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partse.html

Websites for Diagramming Parts of a Sentence

http://www.geocities.com/gene_moutoux/diagrams.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/diagrams/diagrams.htm

Unit 1: Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections

Prepositions:

On this website, you will find links to many preposition exercises.
http://www.eslflow.com/prepositionlessonplans.html

There are good explanations of prepositions on this website.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/prepositions.htm

http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/resources/exp_lang/prepositions.html

Interactive exercises:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/fb-bd-preposition.html
http://www.esl-classroom.com/grammar/gindex.html

Conjunctions:
Excellent explanations of the different types of conjunctions:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/conjunctions.htm

Explanations and examples of the different conjunctions:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/bryson.htm

Explanation of coordinating conjunctions and exercises to practice:
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/coconj.htm

http://www.virtualsalt.com/conjunct.htm

Interjections:
This one has a few British interjections that we don't commonly use like blimey and crickey in number 8.
http://a4esl.org/q/h/9807/mn-interjections.html

All Parts of Speech
On the left-hand side of the home page of this website, you can choose which part of speech you want to work with:
http://www.betterenglish.org.ph/

Explanation of the different parts of speech:
http://www.krysstal.com/grammar.html

This site has explanations of the parts of speech and some quizes:
http://esl.about.com/od/grammarglossary/a/eightparts.htm

On the home page of this site, select The 8 English Parts of Speech to find information and a quiz. You can also select the individual parts of speech, for example verbs to practice the individual parts.
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/

Unit 1: Verbs, Adverbs and Adjectives

This website has explanations and exercise sheets for adjectives, verbs, adverbs and much more.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html

ADVERBS

This website lists many other websites for adverbs.
http://newton.uor.edu/facultyfolder/rider/adverbs.htm

This website has an interactive quiz to recognize adverbs.
http://www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_grammar/adverb_ex1.htm

This website explains adverbs. Then near the bottom of the page, there are links to other sites.
http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_adverbs.htm

In this interactive quiz, you decide whether to uase an adverb or an adjective in a sentence.
http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/gc-advadj.html

VERBS
This website provides information for writing. In a section called 'Using Verbs', you'll find information about compound verbs, auxiliary verbs, transitive and intransitive verbs, linking verbs, and more.
http://www.writingcentre.uottawa.ca/hypergrammar/useverb.html

This website shows all the verb tenses both active and passive, and gives an example sentence for each one.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/esltensverb.html

This website is a verb tense tutorial with lots of information and interactive exercises in using verb tenses.
http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html

ADJECTIVES
http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_adjectives.htm

http://www.edhelper.com/language/adjectives1241.html
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/adj.htm

This website has a good explanation of comparative & superlative adjectives:
http://www.it-infothek.de/fhtw/semester_2/t_en_02.html

http://www.esl-library.com/pdf/lessons/10.comparatives-superlatives.pdf

Here are some websites where you can print worksheets to practice adjectives:
Comparatives:
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/totalenglish/pdfs/downloads/upper-intermediate/upp-int_unit_6_grammar_3.pdf
http://www.usp.edu/writing/handouts/ps/PS08-Comparatives.pdf

Comparatives & superlatives:
http://www.elmwood.peoria.k12.il.us/EHS/ASSIGNMENTS/TEACHERS/REICHERS/WebPage/8th%20English/Chapter%205/Exercise%20Bank/5-5.pdf
http://www.usp.edu/writing/handouts/ps/PS06-Adjectives.pdf

Here are some websites where you'll find interactive exercises to practice adjectives:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/internet-grammar/adjectiv/xadjv1.htm
Participial adjectives:
http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/boreding.htm
http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/passive3a.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1979/grammar.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1979/grammar/ed-ing2.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1979/grammar/ed-ing3.html
Adjective placement:
http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blgr_adjective_order_quiz.htm
Compound adjectives
http://www.englishmedialab.com/Quizzes/advanced/compound%20adjectives%20match.htm

Unit 1: Nouns and Pronouns

Here are some websites where you can print worksheets to practice with nouns:
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/nouns/

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/grammar.html - this site has worksheets for many different grammar points including 9 or more for nouns

http://www.ezschool.com/EZSheets/Grammar/Nouns/

http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=nouns+worksheets&rating=3

And here are some websites where you can print worksheets to practice with pronouns:

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/pronoun.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/interestsentences/pronouns/worksheet.shtml

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000240.shtml

***Don't forget to include these worksheets in your portfolio.***

Here's some websites with interactive quizzes for nouns:

http://www.grammaruntied.com/nouns/nouns.html

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quiz_list.htm

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-directions6-8.cgi?Grade=6&Unit=2&Topic=Nouns - this one is fun...it's called Game Blast!

And here's some interactive sites for pronouns:

http://www.grammaruntied.com/pronouns/pronouns.html

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/GRAMMAR/quiz_list.htm

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/pronoun_quiz.htm