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New Vista High School: Guideline for Combining Sentences
This document explains the difference between simple, compound, and complex sentences and when each should be used.
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Troubleshooting Sentences
This site presents in chart form a list of common sentence problems with possible solutions offered. A couple additional links are provided for further information.
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Wilfrid Laurier University: Paragraph Writing [Pdf]
This site from the Wilfrid Laurier University provides a complete guide to paragraph writing. Contains many examples along with details and structures that are often left out when students write.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Academic Writing: Specific Requirements
This page focuses on academic writing requriements and includes links to Argumentative (Persuasive) Writing, Essay Writing, and How to Write a Research Paper.
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Grammarly Handbook: Body of the Text
This page explains how to write the body of the text from your outline (a link to "How to Write an Outline" is provided). The body must support the thesis and provide evidence and examples to support the thesis.
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Grammarly Handbook: Introduction and Conclusion
Explanations and examples of writing introductions and conclusions.
Quia
Quia: Main Idea/supporting Details
This is a conjunctions quiz using coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs.
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Cayuga Community College: Clauses, Phrases, and Commas [Pdf]
Learn about phrases, dependent and independent clauses, and how to use commas appropriately with clauses and phrases.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Grammar: Phrases
This site provides a general overview on phrases as an essential element of grammar.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Writing
This five-part learning module provides assorted references for sentence writing. This blendspace provides video writing tasks, resource sheets, and reference page links. Most of the spaces relate to writing compound and complex sentences.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Diagramming Sentences
Click through information, directions, and examples to learn how to diagram sentences correctly. Practice by putting words into the correct space on diagrams.
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English Language: Smart Words: Transitional Words and Phrases
Lists of transitional words or phrases broken into categories based on their purposes. Can be downloaded in PDF format. There is also a short discussion of their important role in essay writing. W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 10.1: Parts of the Sentence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples to demonstrate how to identify independent and dependent clauses, prepositions and prepositional phrases, participle phrases and gerund...
TES Global
Tes: Fronted Adverbials Grammar
[Free Registration/Login Required] This SMART Notebook resource can be used as a warm-up activity. Each slide will stimulate verbal responses on ways to begin sentences. Students will then start their own sentences with nouns, verbs,...
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Grammarly Blog: Wrong Participle
An explanation with examples of using participles correctly in sentences.
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Grammarly Blog: Nouns and Prepositions
An explanation with examples of how nouns and prepositions can work together in a sentence.
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Grammarly Blog: Articles
This page explains what articles are including the definite article "the" and the indefinite articles "a" and "an" and provides examples of their use and exceptions for the use of "a" and "an". It explains the rules for the uses of...
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Grammarly Blog: Starting a Sentence With a Conjunction
An explanation with examples of the capitalization and punctuation rules for beginning a sentence with a conjunction.
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Grammarly Blog: Each and Every
This page explains the proper use of the singular words "each" and "every" and provides examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Qualifiers and Quantifiers
An explanation and examples of how qualifiers and quantifiers are used in sentences. Links to additional information are provided.
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Grammarly Blog: Abstract Nouns
This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.
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Grammarly Blog: Lots or Plenty of and Singular Nouns
An explanation of how to use qualifying nouns like "lots" and "plenty" correctly in a sentence.
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Grammarly Blog: Linking Verbs
An explanation and examples of linking verbs and how they are used correctly in sentences.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Subject Verb Agreement
Site provides some different rules applying to subject-verb agreement, especially in cases of "expressions of quantity." Excellent information for students looking to hone their craft of writing.