Goodwill
Gcf Global: Run on Sentences
Examples show how to avoid creating a run-on sentence in your writing.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Independent and Dependent Clauses
This online writing lab offers definitions of the two main types of clauses as well as related concepts. It provides examples and offers instructions for avoiding common mistakes with clauses. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Common Core Standards: Phrases and Clauses
Students will learn about the function of phrases and clauses and their function in specific sentences. Choose test mode or game mode.
Organization for Community Networks
Organization for Community Network: Writing Successful Paragraphs
How can you learn to write a successful paragraph? This site features a lesson plan to help your students sharpen their writing skills.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Using Transitions: Transitional Words and Phrases
Tables of words that show different types of sentence transitions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/transitions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4, W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion....
Other
Ef Education First: English Grammar: Relative Adverbs
Information and examples about relative adverbs and how they are used to introduce relative clauses.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Starting Sentences With "And" or "But"
Read a tutorial about coordinating conjuctions and when they can be used to begin sentences.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Parts of Speech Conjunctions
Nice website that offers an explanation of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions, along with examples of usage and an interactive quiz.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Sentence Elements: Prepositional Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide explains how to identify prepositional phrases.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Sentence Elements: Noun Clauses
This section of an online grammar guide provides instructions and examples for using subordinate (dependent) clauses as nouns in constructing sentences.
University of Calgary
Basic Elements of English: Appositive & Absolute Phrases
This section of an online grammar guide provides definitions, examples, and an interactive exercise on identifying appositive and absolute phrases. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
Rutgers University
Rutgers Univ.: Guide to Grammar and Style: Dependent Versus Independent Clauses
This site has a section from an online source called the Guide to Grammar and Style which provides an explanation of the difference between dependent and independent clauses.
Rutgers University
Rutgers University: Guide to Grammar and Style: Paragraphs
At this site, Jack Lynch sets forth many guidelines for writing good paragraphs, from length, to specific word choice, to proofreading, to voice, to punctuation. Links are provided to help the student seeking additional clarification.
Other
Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Coordinating Conjunctions
This site offers a good explanation of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. Provides several charts identifying various conjunctions and their meanings.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Phrases and Clauses
Learn to spot the differences between phrases and clauses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Relative Clauses
We use relative pronouns to connect descriptive phrases to nouns, creating a relative clause. Test your knowledge of how they work!
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Word Displays
This strategy helps students understand vocabulary as the read and refine their language skills in support of writing about texts.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Semantic Mapping
A strategy for developing students' vocabulary by representing the concepts of words graphically. This helps refine their understanding of vocabulary to meet expectations in reading and language.
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer Glossary: Conjunctions
This site offers a basic definition of conjunctions, with hypertext links to related terms (phrases, clauses, subordinate clauses, and main clauses). Addresses coordinate, correlative, and subordinate conjunctions.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Combining Sentences
An exercise where students combine two or three sentences into one sentence containing only one independent clause. When finished, students can check their answers by comparing them to the suggested combination.
English Plus+
English Plus: Subordinating Conjunction
A simple explanation of subordinating conjunctions with examples. The page includes a list of common subordinating conjunctions.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: How Does a Sentence Make Sense?
This resource explains importance of the agreement of elements in sentences and covers agreement of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs. Exercises included. L.11-12.3a Syntax
University College London
University College London: Subject and Predicate
The Survey of English Usage provides explanations and examples for the subject and the predicate.
University College London
The Internet Grammar of English: Sentences
This site from the Internet Grammar of English of the University College of London provides a general overview of sentence structure. Content includes an online exercise, and is worth checking out on the subject.