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Sentences
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Kind of sentences
Fragment and run-on sentence
Types of sentences
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
1.1 - Kind of sentences
1.2 - Identify sentence fragments
1.3 - Identify run-on sentences
1.4 - Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons
1.5 - Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
1.6 - Is the sentence simple, compound, complex or compound-complex?
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Type of sentences
Kind of sentences
Fragment and run-on sentences
Fixing fragments and run-ons
Pronouns
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Pronouns
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
2.1 - Identify and correct errors with subject and object pronouns
2.2 - Subject and object pronouns review
2.3 - Identify and correct pronoun errors with 'who' (I)
2.4 - Identify and correct pronoun errors with 'who' (II)
2.5 - Use relative pronouns: who and whom
2.6 - Identify vague pronoun references
2.7 - Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which and that
2.8 - Pronouns I
2.9 - Pronouns II
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Relative pronouns
Subject and object pronouns
Vague pronoun references
Parts of speech
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Verbs, predicate adjectives, and nouns
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
3.1 - Form the progressive verb tenses
3.2 - Form the perfect verb tenses
3.3 - Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
3.4 - Identify linking verbs, predicate adjectives and predicate nouns
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Progressive verb tense
Intransitive and intransitive verbs
Parts of speech
Perfect verb tense
Adjectives and adverbs
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Adjectives and adverbs
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
4.1 - Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives
4.2 - Good, better, best, bad, worse and worst
4.3 - Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs
4.4 - Well, better, best, badly, worse and worst
4.5 - Adjectives or adverbs
4.6 - Correct form of adjectives and adverbs
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Comparative adjectives
Superlative adjectives
Punctuation, capitalisation and formatting
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Punctuation
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
5.1 - Formatting and capitalising titles: review
5.2 - Formatting titles
5.3 - Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
5.4 - Use semicolons and commas to separate clauses
5.5 - Use semicolons, colons and commas with lists
5.6 - Semicolons, colons and commas review
5.7 - Apostrophes
5.8 - Dashes
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Apostrophe and dashes
Formatting and capitalizing titles
Ellipses, semicolons, colons, and commas
Prefixes and suffixes
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Affixation
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
6.1 - Word pattern analogies
6.2 - Word pattern sentences
6.3 - Words with pre-
6.4 - Words with re-
6.5 - Words with sub-
6.6 - Words with mis-
6.7 - Words with un-, dis-, in-, im- and non-
6.8 - Words with -ful
6.9 - Words with -less
6.10 - Affixation review
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Affixation
Prefixes pre, re, sub, mis
Prefixes un, dis, in, im, non
Suffix ful, less, able, ible
Word pattern analogies and sentence completion
Etymologies and foreign expressions
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Etymology
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
7.1 - Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
7.2 - Use words as clues to the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
7.3 - Determine the meanings of Greek and Latin roots
7.4 - Determine the meanings of words with Greek and Latin roots
7.5 - Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words
7.6 - Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
7.7 - Sort words using Greek and Latin roots
7.8 - Use correct foreign expression
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Etymology (Greek and Latin roots)
Greek roots
Reference skills
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Dictionary skills
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
8.1 - Use thesaurus entries
8.2 - Using a dictionary
8.3 - Alphabetic order
8.4 - Guide words
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Guide words
Thesaurus entries
Alphabetic order
Dictionary usage
Word usage and Analogies
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Word usage
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
9.1 - Connotation and denotation I
9.2 - Connotation and denotation II
9.3 - Use words accurately and precisely
9.4 - Analogies
9.5 - Analogies: challenge
9.6 - Replace words using a thesaurus
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Analogies
Connotation and denotation
Replacing words using thesaurus
Using words accurately and precisely
Narrative point of view
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Narrative point of view
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
10.1 - Identify the narrative point of view
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Narrative point of view
Context clues
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Context clues
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
11.1 - Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context
11.2 - Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
11.3 - Use context to identify the meaning of a word
11.4 - Synonyms and antonyms
11.5 - Context clues
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Synonyms
Antonyms
Context clues
Writing clear and concise sentences
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
How to write clearly and concisely
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
12.1 - Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
12.2 - Avoid double, illogical and unclear comparisons
12.3 - Use the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
12.4 - Use parallel structure
12.5 - Are the modifiers used correctly?
12.6 - Identify parallel structure
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Comparative adjectives
Correlative conjunctions
Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Modifiers
Common errors
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
How to avoid common errors
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
13.1 - Use the correct frequently confused word
13.2 - Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words
13.3 - Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
13.4 - Correct errors with commonly misspelled words
13.5 - Sentence correction I
13.6 - Sentence correction II
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Frequently confused words
Frequently confused pronouns and contractions
Commonly misspelled words
Phrases and clauses
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Phrases and clauses
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
14.1 - Is it a phrase or a clause?
14.2 - Prepositional phrases
14.3 - Relative clause
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Clauses
Phrases
Prepositional phrase
Relative clause
Active/passive and subject-verb agreement
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Subject verb agreement and active/passive
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
15.1 - Identify passive voice
15.2 - Rewrite the sentence in active voice
15.3 - Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement
15.4 - Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
15.5 - Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects
15.6 - Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
PRINTABLE WORKSHEETS
Active and passive voice
Subject-verb and indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
Verb agreement with compound subjects and verbs
Figure of speech
CONCEPTS AND EXAMPLES
Figure of speech
INTERACTIVE QUIZZES
16.1 - Use personification
16.2 - Interpret the meaning of allusions
16.3 - Interpret figures of speech
16.4 - Classify figures of speech: review
16.5 - Identify the source of allusions
16.6 - Classify figures of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
