Grammar Points

• Verb Tenses
  Tense Overview
  Auxiliaries
  Verb form mini-quizzes
  Veb tenses -- practice: Labor Day / Martin Luther King Day / 2002 Winter Olympics / Miss America / FIFA/Fathers' Day / Chicago
  Lexical Aspect
  Verb tenses journal assignment
• Passives
  Passives -- introduction
  "Change-of-state" (ergative) verbs
  Complex passive
  cloze activities -- MTD * Groundhog Day * Marathon * Fourth
  Grammar Safari activity -- passive
  Participial adjectives
  Practice with participial adjectives (Ebert) (fall texts) (spring texts) (summer texts)
  Compound adjectives of description
  Participial Adjectives journal assignment
• Modal auxiliaries
  Modals -- overview
  Grammar Safari activity -- modals
  Modals in Friends:

  The One with Chandler's Work Laugh (Jan. 1999) The One with Joey's Big Break (May 1999) The One Where Phoebe Runs (Nov. 1999) The One with Ross' Teeth (Nov. 1999) The One Where Paul's the Man (May 2000) The One with Rachel's Assistant (Oct. 2000)

  The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding (May 2001) The One Where Rachel is Late (May 2002) The One Where Monica Sings (Jan. 2003) The One with the Donor (May 2003) The One with the Home Study (Nov.2003)

  Modals in The Simpsons (Jan. 2002)
  Modals in Seinfeld:

  The Chinese Restaurant The Friars Club (March 1996)

  Modals in Leave it to Beaver
  Modals in the comics and advice columns
  Modals in the McKinley Center video
  Modals journal assignment
  Spring 1997 modal conversations
• Articles
  
  Articles -- overview
  irregular noun plurals
  count/noncount
  The with proper nouns
  Practice with articles: Washington / Columbus / First Amendment / Casey at the Bat
  Other
  Quantifiers -- overview
  Discovering quantifiers by concordancing
  Practice with quantifiers: Washington / Columbus / First Amendment
  More practice with quantifiers: Washington / Columbus / First Amendment / summer texts
  Numbers
  Grammar Safari activity -- quantifiers
  Quantifiers journal assignment
  Subject-verb agreement
  Subject/verb agreement journal assignment
• Adjectives
  Adjectives
• Adjective Clauses
  Adjective clauses -- overview
  Adjective clauses -- analyzing
  Legend of Sleepy Hollow activities and practice
  Make your own limericks and practice
  clauses with that
  Grammar Safari activity -- adjective clauses
  Adjective clauses journal assignment
• Adverb clauses
  Adverb clauses -- overview
  Adverb clauses/phrases -- practice
  Examples, spring 1999
  Adverb clauses/phrases -- time journal assignment
  Adverb clauses/phrases -- why?
  Adverb clauses/phrases -- so
  Clauses with that
  Adverb clauses/phrases -- "so" journal assignment
• Conditions
  Conditions -- overview
  Conditions -- practice
  In Case and Otherwise
  Conditions journal assignment
• Complements (also see Noun clauses and Gerunds and Infinitives, below)
  Complements (noun clauses and gerunds/infinitives) -- overview
  Complements -- PRACTICE People's Court * To Tell the Truth
• Noun clauses
  Noun clauses -- overview
  noun clauses -- introduction
  noun clauses -- analysis and practice
  noun clauses -- further practice -- production
  noun clauses -- reported speech
  clauses with that
  special practice with say, speak, talk, and tell
  Noun clauses journal assignment
• Gerunds and Infinitives and Special verbs
  Gerunds and Infinitives -- overview
  Concordance activity
  Form -- gerunds / infinitives
  Function -- gerunds / infinitives
  Lists of gerunds and infinitives as objects of verbs
  Mini-quiz (gerunds and infinitives as direct objects of verbs)
  Gerund or infinitive? -- practice
  Gerunds and Infinitives journal assignment
  Causatives -- overview
  Use of get
  Verbs of Observation and Depiction -- overview
  
• Review -- Logical connectors and Discourse issues
  Coordinating and correlative conjunctions
  Choices -- clarity
  Practice, and more practice
  Choices -- discourse factors
  Paper bag stories (fall 1996 stories)
  

Resources (Texts and Background Information)

• Verb tenses:
  • Labor Day
    • Labor Day (Encyclopaedia Britannica -- sorry, UIUC no longer has a subscription to this)
    • The Origins of Labor Day (PBS Online Newshour, Sept. 2, 1996)
    • What's with this day off for Labor Day? (KC Wildemoon, CNN, September 3, 1995)
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • Martin Luther King biography
    • George W. Bush biography
    • The MLK Holiday (Paul Andrews, Seattle Times staff reporter, 1985)
  • Chicago
    • Chicago Biographies:
      • Marshall Field (Sorry. The UIUC subscription to the Encyclopaedie Britannica has been cancelled.)
      • Jane Addams (Sorry. The UIUC subscription to the Encyclopaedie Britannica has been cancelled.)
      • Al Capone
      • Richard J. Daley (Sorry. The UIUC subscription to the Encyclopaedie Britannica has been cancelled.)
    • Chicago History (Sorry. The UIUC subscription to the Encyclopaedie Britannica has been cancelled.)
• Passives:
  • MTD :
    • MTD plans new $9 million center (DI, Feb. 2, 1996)
      Transit Center Renamed (no longer available online)
      
    • Buses will run from new terminal today (C-U News-Gazette, Jan 30,1999)
    • History of the Fourth of July
  • Groundhog Day
    • Groundhog Day
      
    • Groundhog's Greeting No Factual Forecast (C-U News-Gazette, Feb. 2, 1983)
      
    • Punxsutawney Phil's story
    • What in the Heck is Groundhog Day, Anyway?
  • History of the Fourth of July
• Modals:
  • Friends
  • Seinfeld
  • Leave It to Beaver
    • Episode 164 -- Wally's Big Date
    • History and Background from TVLand and TV.com
• Articles/quantifiers
  • Columbus
    • Columbus and Myth in America (University of Virginia, Spring 1996)
    • The truth about Columbus (Daily Illini editorial, 10/09/95)
    • Those who crucify Columbus ignore his historical context (Daily Illini, Paul Lubbers, 10/11/95)
    • Columbus should not be deemed a 'bad guy' (Daily Illini, Dan Elbaum, 10/12/95)
    • Consider historical context of Columbus (Daily Illini, Bridgot McFarlane, 10/18/95)
    • Revising Columbus (Daily Illini, opinion, 10/12/04)
    • Protesters object to national holiday honoring Columbus (Daily Illini, Jeremy Pelzer, 10/12/04)
    • The story of Columbus (Encyclopaedia Britannica -- sorry, UIUC no longer has a subscription to this)
  • George Washington and Field of Dreams (articles/quantifiers)
    • George Washington (from the Encyclopaedia Britannica Presidential series)
      
    • Shoeless Joe Jackson
      
    • Moonlight Graham
      
    • J.D. Salinger (from the Encyclopaedia Britannica)
  • Casey at the Bat (nouns/articles)
• Adjectives, and conditions:
  • Field of Dreams (adjectives and conditions)
    • trailer
      
    • Trivia quiz
      
    • Roger Ebert review (Chicago Sun-Times)
      
    • Washington Post review
      
    • Associated Press story from March 2005
• Adjective Clauses:
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -- the original story and the video
• Adverb clauses, including conditions:
  • Hoosiers
    • Information about Hoosiers from the Internet Movie Database
    • a "trailer" (scroll down to "Watch Trailer .. 300K")
      
    • memorable quotes from the moive
      
    • a review by Roger Ebert
      
    • the TRUE STORY behind Hoosiers! (click on the 1954 information)
• Conditions (also articles, quantifiers, logical connectors:
  • New Yorker cartoons       (To search for New Yorker cartoons with particular words or phrases, choose "Cartoon Prints Only" -- not "Entire Site.")
• Complements (gerunds, infinitives, and noun clauses):
  • "To Tell the Truth"
    • listen to this!
• Logical connectors/discourse:
  • A Christmas Carol
    • A Christmas Carol (Dickens)
    • the video
    • more about Dickens' Christmas Carol

Tools

• Using FIND in Netscape (to find common words after you have chosen a document)
• Using SEARCH in Netscape (to locate documents with less common words in them)
• Grammar Journal menu
• Concordance