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.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Prepositions of Time and Place
An explanation with examples of prepositions that describe time and place.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Avoid Unnecessary Construction and Prepositions
This page focuses on the need for clear and concise language when writing.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Negatives
An explanation and examples of negative words and how they affect a sentence.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language
Notes, two videos, and a PowerPoint presentation introducing concise language and explaining its importance and how to edit writing to make it more concise.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Improving Sentence Clarity
A good resource that lists many ways to improve upon the clarity of a sentence. Includes examples and exercises for students.
Other
Meredith Grammar Review: Clauses & Phrases
This online grammar guide provides instructions and examples on punctuating combinations of phrases and clauses. It also provides interactive exercises throughout the chapter.
Get It Write
Get It Write: Placement of Only
Learn how to position the word "only" so it modifies just what it should. Make your writing as precise as you can by following the tips on this site. Check your understanding with the brief quiz.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 1: Their, There, and They're
Complete these 20 sentences by choosing the correct form of their, there, and they're.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Word Choice: Exercise 2: Their, There, and They're
Complete these 20 sentences by typing the correct form of their, there, and they're.
Goodwill
Gcf Global: Run on Sentences
Examples show how to avoid creating a run-on sentence in your writing.
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.
BBC
Bbc: Skillswise: Sentence Structure
This Skillswise site focuses on sentence structure. Included are a video about why about sentence structure is important, fact sheets and worksheets for instruction, quizzes on the information presented, and games to practice the skill....
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
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Combining Sentences
An exercise where students read six sets of sentences and combine each set into one sentence containing only one independent clause. Answers are typed into a box, and then students can check their work against the suggested answers to...
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Participial Phrases [Pdf]
This PDF can be used as an overhead or handout. It shows how sentences can be strengthened when two or more sentences are combined with the use of participial phrases.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Interactive Grammar Exercises
Fun grammar exercises with amusing art and sound clips attached to answers. Answers explained clearly and in an amusing manner.
InterLink Language Centers
Interlink: Parts of Speech: Conjunctions
This site is designed for English-as-a-Second-Language students and offers a description of conjunctions and their function in sentences.
Quia
Quia: Conjunctions
This is a 14-question, multiple choice quiz over conjunctions. Students read each statement paying attention to the punctuation around the blank and select the appropriate word.
English Club
English Club: Learn English: Grammar Terms
A glossary of grammar and linguistic terms along with definitions, example sentences, and links to additional information.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Lesson 10
This lesson discusses the goal of concision in writing. It is 10 of 10 in the series titled "Concise Language."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Concise Language: Stating the Obvious: Lesson 3
This lesson goes over removing obvious information. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Concise Language: Stating the Obvious."