Writerhetoric

This document contains 50 choice problems in which students choose whether the objective case or subjective case of the pronoun should be used. Students are tested on their knowledge of I, me, they, them, she, and he, him, and her.

This document contains 50 practice exercises that assess students' knowledge and understanding of parallelism with a series, coordinating conjunctions, correlative conjunctions, function words and "than" and "as".

Showing versus telling is a lecture plus activities that focuses on the descriptive strategies action verbs, voice, adjectives, adverbs, participles and participle phrases. It consists of suggestions for activities for each topic of focus. In addition, there are two assignments at the end of the lecture that test students' knowledge of all strategies taught.

This document contains 50 practice exercises that aid with teaching the conditions in which to use dashes and parentheses.

This document assess students' ability to use three common types of punctuation: commas, colons, and semicolons. There are 55 problems that include answers. A scantron answer sheet can be used, since they include answer choices from which to choose.

This document contains a lecture on James Joyce's "Araby," a short story contained in the larger work Dubliners. This short story takes place in Dublin, Ireland, and is a learning resource that can be used to celebrate Irish history this month. It includes short descriptions of the characters, examples and explanations of literary devices such as personification, symbolism, metaphor, and motif. It also contains definitions for vocabulary terms that students may not be familiar with and sugge

There are 40 practice exercises here that help teach the differences between comparatives and superlatives. Students are tested on their ability to change adjectives to the comparative and superlative forms, their ability to recognize the conditions in which to use comparatives and superlatives, and the ability to recognized the comparative forms, superlative forms, and double comparatives and superlatives.

This document consists of 30 practice exercises that assess students' knowledge of cumulative adjective order.

This document defines the 5 parts of plot structure along with the term anecdote. Each page, in addition to defining the parts, contains part of one short narrative example broken up into the 5 parts. At the end there is an short review quiz with answers.

There are 31 multiple choice (a or b) exercises that assess students' ability to choose the correct verb for singular and compound subjects.

Part I requires students to choose the simple subject and simple predicate of each sentence while part II requires them to choose the complete subject and complete predicate.

There are 50 problems that assess students' ability to change irregular verbs into past and past participle forms and recognize irregular verbs.

Test students' ability to use the correct helping and main verb combinations. There are 30 practice exercises.

This document contains 30 practice exercises that assess student understanding of flat adverbs.

This is a great resource to use after introducing plot structure and description to students. It focuses on identifying devices in narrative and creating one's own examples using the examples and explanations given. These strategies are plot structure, adjectives, adverbs, participles, participle phrases, comparison methods simile and metaphor, dialogue, dominant impressions and speaker tags. Questions are phrased so that you can choose the narrative/s of your choice to use along with this a

This document assesses students' comprehension of the singular and plural forms of nouns and subject and object noun forms and uses. You can download the answer sheet, entitled "plurals and pronouns answer sheet."

Students must choose the correct form of be to write in each of blank. There are 40 problems.

This document contains the answers to the Plurals and Pronouns quiz. Answers are written or circles in red.

This 3 page document consists of a word search for adjectives. There are 35 nouns given for which the student should determine the adjectives that describe the noun. This is not intentionally difficult, and the answers are usually the initial answers that students might come up with.So the only difficulty should be in finding the words. In addition, this helps students determine the difference between adjectives and nouns. Page three consists of the answer sheet.