Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Diagramming Sentences Power Point
This handy PowerPoint presentation introduces the concept of sentence diagramming. It includes a number of examples.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Fragments and Types of Sentences
Ten questions asking students to identify the difference between complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing the Function of Phrases
In this quiz, students read the sentence, determine the function of the group of words in all capitals and select the correct answer. Java is required.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Body Parts, I
In this seven question quiz, students are given a sentence and asked a question about parts of the sentence, such as what is the subject of the sentence, or what is the underlined part of the sentence called. They are to select from the...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Body Parts, Ii
This 8 question quiz on sentences presents a sentence and asks students questions about its structure. Java is required.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Elements of Sentence Construction
This entry focuses on the Elements of Sentence Construction including subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses, compound sentence elements, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and fused sentences.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Sass: Sentence Structure [Pdf]
This online writing guide defines independent and dependent clauses and explains how dependent clauses are used in sentences. With examples. [PDF]
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Phrases: Prepositional and Verbal
This site offers links to quizzes/exercises covering Prepositional and Verbal Phrases including participials, gerunds, and infinitives.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguishing Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 4
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
Towson University
Towson University: Distinguishing Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 5
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing With Participial Phrases
Students will learn how to combine sentences by utilizing participial phrases
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Main Clause
Grammar tutorial for understanding the main clause (independent clause) and distinguishing the subordinate (dependent) clause. Provides examples and instructions for using clauses in constructing sentences.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Clause
This site provides definitions and examples of main (independent) clauses, subordinate (dependent) clauses, relative clauses, and noun clauses. It also offers instructions on using these clauses in sentences.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Adverb Clause
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an adverb clause in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Essential Clause
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an essential clause in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Participle Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a participial phrase in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Subordinate Conjunction
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a subordinating conjunction, a subordinate conjunction, in the context of a sentence.
Other
D'youville College: Core Parts of a Sentence
This online writing lab provides a series of examples on identifying one of the two main components of complete sentences, the subject and the verb. Correctly identifying these parts will result in the ability to write complete sentences.
Other
Critical Reading: Subject and Predicate
Part of a larger site on "The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing," this section on the simple sentence focuses on the subject and the predicate. Definitions and examples are provided along with a section on...
Other
Legal Writing: Clauses Restrictive & Non Restrictive
This online writing guide for law students provides definitions and examples of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and instructions for punctuating clauses correctly. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
Other
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.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Adjective & Adverb Clauses
This section of an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides definitions and examples of adjective clauses and adverb clauses.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences
In this lesson plan, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...