• Dangling participles

• Misplaced participles

• Verbals
  
  NOTE: Modifiers may be words, phrases, or clauses; adjectives and adverbs (adjectival and adverbial phrases and clauses)

Lesson Plans:

What's Happening?
Students play a grammar game in which they practice using verbs and adverbs

Create Your Own Grammar Exercise
The purpose of this lesson is to help students realize the importance of adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, and verbs

What's An Adjective?
Creative writing group project

Adjectives
Improving adjective usage

Adjective/Adverb "Taboo"
Playing the game Taboo with adjectives and adverbs

Memorial for September 11th
Using descriptive words to put a picture in your mind
 

American Heritage Book of English Usage  With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms

Suggestions for English Language Learners:                   

ESL Ideas      (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional)
(B) Using a list, students highlight modifiers in a newspaper article or other written material. 
(I) Students copy highlighted modifiers and the words they modify from written material. 
(T) Students correct incorrect modifiers or add modifiers to simple sentences. 
See also Comparative & Superlative Quiz for more grammar activities and quizzes. 

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