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Learn That Word: Root Words & Prefixes: Quick Reference
Excellent reference tool listing prefixes and roots together alphabetically along with definitions and examples.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...
Towson University
Towson University: Verb Tense Consistency
After reviewing verb tenses, this online writing support shows how to maintain verb tense consistency within in sentences, withing paragraphs, and within entire essays.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Verbs
This Skillswise site focuses on verbs. Included are a video about why identifying verbs is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, and quizzes on the information presented. The Skillswise sites from BBC are geared to...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Literary Terminology: Practice 5 (English I Reading)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will practice using terminology critical for comprehension, interpretation, and analysis of poetry, drama, and fiction.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze How Author's Style and Syntax Support Meaning
Analyze how an author's style and syntax support meaning in a text. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.L.3
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: The Proper Use of "Lay" and "Lie"
Check this brief explanation of how to tell the difference between lay, a transitive verb, and lie an intransitive verb, and use them properly in English grammar.
Grammar Tips
Grammar Tips: Nonfinite Verb Forms (Verbals)
This resource offers a clear explanation of verbals and their proper use. There are some examples, but the resource is primarily devoted to definition.