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New Vista High School: Guideline for Combining Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This document explains the difference between simple, compound, and complex sentences and when each should be used.
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Activity
Other

Troubleshooting Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Other

Wilfrid Laurier University: Paragraph Writing [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Academic Writing: Specific Requirements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Body of the Text

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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

Grammarly Handbook: Introduction and Conclusion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explanations and examples of writing introductions and conclusions.
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eBook
Quia

Quia: Main Idea/supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a conjunctions quiz using coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs.
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Other

Cayuga Community College: Clauses, Phrases, and Commas [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn about phrases, dependent and independent clauses, and how to use commas appropriately with clauses and phrases.
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Handout
University of Victoria (Canada)

The U Vic Writer's Guide: Grammar: Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a general overview on phrases as an essential element of grammar.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Diagramming Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Handout
Other

English Language: Smart Words: Transitional Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
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Website
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: 10.1: Parts of the Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
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Whiteboard
TES Global

Tes: Fronted Adverbials Grammar

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[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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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Wrong Participle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of using participles correctly in sentences.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Nouns and Prepositions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of how nouns and prepositions can work together in a sentence.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Articles

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Starting a Sentence With a Conjunction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation with examples of the capitalization and punctuation rules for beginning a sentence with a conjunction.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Each and Every

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This page explains the proper use of the singular words "each" and "every" and provides examples.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Qualifiers and Quantifiers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples of how qualifiers and quantifiers are used in sentences. Links to additional information are provided.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Abstract Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains that an abstract noun is not identifiable by any of the five senses and provides examples.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Lots or Plenty of and Singular Nouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of how to use qualifying nouns like "lots" and "plenty" correctly in a sentence.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Linking Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples of linking verbs and how they are used correctly in sentences.
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University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Subject Verb Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.