Other
Rhl School: English Basics: Real Sentences
How do you know that a group of words is really a sentence? This resource features examples of complete and incomplete sentences that students can identify and fix.
Other
Assessing Grammar Proficiency
How do assess grammar proficiency? This site features information on authentic assessment and mechanical tests. Find out more by checking out this informative resource.
Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Buy Me!
This third-fifth grade lesson focuses on students choosing a product to sell, determining their target audience, and creating a PowerPoint presentation to sell their product.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Common Prepositions
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides a list of prepositions.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Comma Before But
This page focuses on the use of a comma before the coordinating conjunction "but" only if it is in front of an independent clause. Examples of proper and improper uses are provided.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Study Zone: Parts of Speech
Nice brief visual summary of the parts of speech - clear and concise - followed by an interactive practice quiz to reinforce concepts - great for ELL - has links to more in-depth explanations.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
University of North Carolina
Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons
What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Conjunctions
This page focuses on conjunctions including what conjunctions are; the types of conjunctions: Coordinating, Correlative, and Subordinating; how to start sentences with conjunctions, examples of each of the above, and lists for each type...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Fragments Exercise 3
A practice exercise with ten questions. Each question has three sentences and students are asked to choose the one that is a complete sentence. Answers can be checked when finished, and correct answers are provided for any questions missed.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Fragments Exercise 2
A ten-question practice exercise where students look at a set of three sentences and then choose the one that is a complete sentence. Answers can be checked and correct answers are provided for any questions missed.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Fragments Exercise 1
An exercise where students read ten sets of three sentences and chooses which sentence in each set is a complete sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any that were missed.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: L.4.3b: Choose Punctuation for Effect
Links to 3 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard L.4.3b: Choose punctuation for effect.
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Sentence Structure Games
A collection of games for students to work on forming sentences. These games give students strategies for sentence formation.
Other
Ef Education First: English Grammar: Relative Adverbs
Information and examples about relative adverbs and how they are used to introduce relative clauses.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Making Sentences [Pdf]
Discover how to make sentences through this BBC Skillswise worksheet.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sentence Fragments
Sentence fragments can't stand alone, because they do not express a complete thought. Run-ons put two complete sentences together in one sentence without separating them. [0:35]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Commas With Conjunctions
Conjunctions can join two separate clauses, but sometimes they need commas. Learn how to do so correctly with this video. [0:48]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Conjunctions
Conjunctions are a part of a speech that connects different parts of a sentence, such as groups of words, clauses, or phrases. [0:41]
South Carolina Educational Television
Know It All: Interjections
Fourth graders will learn about interjections and how to use them in their writing.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Parts of Speech Quest 7 Conjunctions
A terrible dragon has attacked the kingdom of Lingua and only a Conjunctions Master will be able to save it. Will it be you? Put your knowledge of pronouns to the test as you venture through Parts of Speech Quest - Conjunctions!