Category: Grammar
Combing Sentences With Present Participles
Always encouraging my students to write in more concise sentences, I find it helpful to show them various ways to combine sentences while maintaining clarity. One way to do this is by using particip... Read More
Expanding Sentences with Semicolons, Commas, Parentheses, and Dashes
If your students are anything like mine, they overuse parentheses (where they learned this, I have no idea!) and they view semi-colons to be as about as foreign as hieroglyphics. Although punctuation ... Read More
Simple, Compound, Complex Sentences
I probably don’t teach as much grammatical jargon as some other ELA teachers; however, I have found that most of my students have a shaky understanding of how to use commas, and sentence types a... Read More