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| Abbreviations, Contractions, and Editing Games for Learning | Abbreviations and Acronyms |
| Alphabetizing | The Alphabetizer : Alphabetize any word list |
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| Enchanted Learning: Contractions | Contractions Practice |
| Grammatical Errors | Practice English to Avoid Common Mistakes |
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| Common Mistakes and Confusing Words in English | Free Online Grammar Check Too! |
| Language Arts Learning Games | Game Classroom - Organized by Grade Level |
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| The Parts of a Sentence | Interactive Activity: The Parts of a Sentence |
| Identifying Parts of a Sentence | Gamequarium: Sentence Structure Games |
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| Most Common Prefixes and Suffixes | Prefixes and Suffixes Learning Game |
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Big Dog's Grammar: Basic English grammar instruction, plus self tests; interactive exercises
ESL Games: Interactive grammar activities by levels.
English Grammar: Grammar Lessons, Exercises, and Rules for Everyday Use
English Lessons Online: Online English Lessons
The Blue Book of Grammar: A Grammar guide with Grammar Rules, Punctuation Rules, Capitalization Rules, Commonly Confused Words, Rules for Writing Numbers, Free Interactive English Quizzes, Grammar and Punctuation Videos
Elements of Style by William Strunk: A complete grammar guide; Essential Rules of Usage; Principles of Composition; Words and Expressions Commonly Misused; Words Commonly Misspelled
Grammar Blast: Interactive Quizzes listed by grade level: grades 2 - 5
Grammar Handbook: Explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage.
Grammar Slammer: Online textbook explaining all the elements of grammar
OWL Handouts in Outline Form: This site lists over 200 free resources available on the major categories of grammar and writing
StudyMyEnglish: Resources to help learn and practice English. The content here includes: reading comprehension, sentence completion, vocabulary building and MORE
WritingDen: Valuable and easy to use writing reference that allows students to look up grammar rules, helper words, and other writing tips by selecting from he headings: Sentences, Paragraphs, Essays. Better than having a text book because it is easier to find a given topic .
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*There English language consists of eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections.
*A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea
*Verbs carries the idea of being or action in the sentence.
*A pronoun can replace the name of a person, place or thing in a sentence.
*Adjectives are words that describe or modify another person or thing in the sentence.
An article is a type of adjective that always gives more information about a particular noun'
*Adverbs are words that modify a verb, an adjective , or another adverb.
*A preposition links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence. The word or phrase that the preposition introduces is called the object of the preposition.
*A conjunction is a joiner (a word that connects parts of a sentence).
*An interjection is a word added to a sentence to convey emotion. It is not grammatically related to any other part of the sentence.\
*There are fourteen marks of punctuation in the English language: period, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, colon, semicolon, hyphen, dash, parentheses, brackets, ellipsis, apostrophe, quotation marks, slash
*In the English language, a sentence is a group of words with four characteristics: All sentences begin with a capital letter; All sentences end with a period or an exclamation point or a question mark; A sentence contains at least one clause; All sentences follow a standard word order.
*Sentences have two parts: the subject and the predicate.
*A run-on sentence has at least two parts, either one of which can stand by itself, but the two parts have been smooshed together instead of being properly connected.
*An abbreviation is a shortened form of a word or phrase used chiefly in writing to represent the complete form.
*A contraction is the shortening of a word, syllable, or word group by omission of internal letters.
*There are many rules of capitalization and rules of punctuation.
*There are over 100 words most commonly misspelled words!
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