Posts for the 'Grammar' Category


It’s and Its Practice Worksheet

September 1st, 2009

It’s is a contraction of the words it is. If you prefer not to write it is, you would write it’s.
Its is the possessive form of it. Normally one uses an apostrophe when showing possession. The rule for pronouns, however, is never use an apostrophe in a personal possessive pronoun (except with the word one’s).
Directions: [...]

Complete Sentences Exercise

August 11th, 2009

A sentence must have a subject (the doer) and a verb (the action). Without both, the sentence does not express a complete thought, and it is a sentence fragment.
Identify each as fragment or complete.

The mouse in the corner.
The last thing I had to do.
Angel read last night.
Over the hills and through the woods.
They took out [...]

Further vs Farther Practice Exercise

August 4th, 2009

Farther refers to distance
Further refers anything else other than distance and the continuation of something. It usually means in addition to or moreover

Sometimes, however, the words are interchangeable, for example, when the idea of distance is unclear as in this example: I was further/farther into the story than I realized. In this case either could [...]

Words That are Both Nouns and Verbs Worksheet

August 2nd, 2009

Some words can be both nouns and verbs depending on how they are used in the sentence. In the following sentences, underline the nouns and circle the verbs.

We went to camp at the top of the mountain at the old mining camp.
The fish were biting, so we decided to stay longer and fish some more.
The [...]

Accept Except Worksheet

July 28th, 2009

Accept – to take or receive; to agree or consent to; to regard as true; to believe
Except – excluding; not including; with the exclusion of

Come over anytime __________ during dinner.
Everything was stolen __________ my teddy bear.
He was __________(ed) into the club in a secret ceremony.
I will __________ this award with pride.
In the end, they had [...]