The passive in English – tips and activities By Kerry G. Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield Tips and ideas from Kerry Maxwell and Lindsay Clandfield on teaching the passive in English. Activity: Variations on quizzes (elementary to advanced) The passive is a favourite grammar area to use for quizzes. OWL Coming Soon: A new look for our same great content! We're working hard this summer on a redesign of the Purdue OWL. Worry not! Our navigation menu and content will remain largely the same. If you are having trouble locating a specific resource, please visit the search page or the Site Map.
GRAMBO It is only a test Actually, it isn't even a test And it contains more than grammar Oh, never mind.... Onward... 1. Voices & Visions 1. Elizabeth Bishop From childhood in Nova Scotia to travels in Brazil, this program illustrates the geographic spirit of Bishop's life and works with scenes from her poems. Go to this unit. 2. Learn Irregular Verbs with Engames and Fluency MC I have already published 10 posts on teaching irregular verbs. You can see the list of the posts down here: But I still cannot say that my students know the verbs. That was why I joined forces with Fluency MC, and this time we would like to teach the irregular verbs together. To achieve this, we have prepared a song, an infographic, a game and an online quiz. We believe that if you go through all the activities, you will know the 20 irregular verbs we would like to teach in this post.
JHS_Grammar Contraction: 省略形 （しょうりゃくけい） Intranstive Verb: 自動詞 （じどうし） Transitive Verb: 他動詞 (たどうし） ADJECTIVE, ADVERB / 形容詞・副詞 English is interesting. English is not easy. How to Abuse and Neglect Punctuation Marks Let’s all try not to assault readers with punctuation marks What is it about punctuation marks that cause so many bad sentence constructions? You know the sentences I’m talking about. They’ve got random commas, missing quotation marks, and way too many exclamation points. To make matters worse, some writers break the rules and get away with it while others are chastised for doing (what appears to be) the same thing.
HyperGrammar Welcome to HyperGrammar electronic grammar course at the University of Ottawa's Writing Centre. This course covers approximately the same ground as our English department's ENG 1320 Grammar course. The content of HyperGrammar is the result of the collaborative work of the four instructors who were teaching the course in Fall 1993: Heather MacFadyen, David Megginson, Frances Peck, and Dorothy Turner. David Megginson was then responsible for editing the grammar and exercises and for converting them to SGML. This package is designed to allow users a great deal of freedom and creativity as they read about grammar.
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Error correction games 1. Grammar auction Students try to outbid other teams for correct sentences from the list you have given them while not buying incorrect sentences (but perhaps still bidding for them at the beginning to make other teams think they are correct). The team that has “bought” the most correct sentences and least wrong sentences at the […] 1. Grammar auctionStudents try to outbid other teams for correct sentences from the list you have given them while not buying incorrect sentences (but perhaps still bidding for them at the beginning to make other teams think they are correct).