Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Restrictive & Nonrestrictive Clauses & Punctuation
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you to identify a restrictive relative clause, also known as an essential clause, and a nonrestrictive relative clause, also known as a nonessential...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Writing Explanation Pt. 2: Crafting a Well Written Explanation
In this module, students will write an explanation about climate change based on the claims, evidence and reasoning they identified in the Writing Explanation Part 1: Claims, Evidence and Reasoning.
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Writing Explanation Part 2: Well Written Explanation
In this module, students will write an explanation based on the claims, evidence and reasoning about climate change that they identified in Writing Explanation Part 1: Claims, Evidence, Reasoning.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Independent Clause
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, and it has great information on the independent clause. The site provides numerous examples along with information on usage and tips for recognizing...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Dependent Clause
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, and it has great information on the dependent clause. The site provides numerous examples along with information on usage and tips for recognizing dependent...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Clauses: The Basics
This page, from a site for University of Oregon journalism students, provides definitions of a clause, an independent clause, and a dependent clause as well as some brief instructions on their uses. The page seems to contain some...
City University of New York
Writesite: Clauses
Grammar and writing tutorial defines clause, independent clause, and dependent clause and provides exercises.
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.
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.
Other
Writing More Persuasively
This site is very thorough, and offers two printable .pdf pages of some important points.
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
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.
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 Richmond
University of Richmond: Transitional Words and Phrases
This site has a list of transitional words and phrases organized by their function in a sentence or paragraph. Because they are organized under such headings as "providing an example" and "showing conclusions," it is easy to find an...
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.
Other
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
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Argument and Persuasion
A slide show with fourteen slides with notes, tips, and examples on how to write a persuasive essay.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Qualifiers and Quantifiers
An explanation and examples of how qualifiers and quantifiers are used in sentences. Links to additional information are provided.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Linking Verbs
An explanation and examples of linking verbs and how they are used correctly in sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Indefinite and Definite Articles
This lesson focuses on articles; it defines definite and indefinite articles and provides examples of each. It explains the a vs. an rule and the exceptions to the rule.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Clauses: The Essential Building Blocks
Online PowerPoint writing tutorial on the subject of clauses in sentences. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
Indiana University
Indiana University: Writing Services: Incorporating Evidence Into Your Essay
This handout explores how to effectively incorporate evidence to support your claims into your paper. It provides weak and strong examples to show effective ways to incorporate evidence clearly and cohesively. W.9-10.1c...
Other
Instruct Uwo: Module 6 Sentence Structure and Style
This site discusses several characteristics of writing: coordination, subordination, parallelism, and sentence variety. Each section includes a brief discussion with examples. There are also quizzes and additional links for each section.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Writing Counterarguments Based on Evidence (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay including counter-arguments that anticipate objections.