English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 9 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 9 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 9 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 9 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 10 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 10 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 10 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 10 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 10 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 10 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 11 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 11 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 11 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 11 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 11 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 11 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 12 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 12 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 12 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 12 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 12 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 12 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Mining Literature for Deeper Meanings
Writing a great English paper can be tough because literature doesn't always reveal its deeper meanings immediately. Amy E. Harter offers a few tips on how to read and write more critically and thoughtfully. [4:12]
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Grammarly Handbook: Writing Concisely
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Grammarly Handbook: Unnecessary Words and Phrases
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Grammarly Handbook: Sentence Structure
Tips on how to vary sentence structure to strengthen writing.
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Grammarly Handbook: Wordiness
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This document explains the difference between simple, compound, and complex sentences and when each should be used.
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If the terms of grammar are foreign to you, this is a good basic place to start. Each term is defined with examples and brief commentary.
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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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Wilfrid Laurier University: Paragraph Writing [Pdf]
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.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Study Webtext: "Bartleby the Scrivener"
Annotated version of the story offers notes and questions to facilitate active reading.
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Grammarly Handbook: Academic Writing: Specific Requirements
This page focuses on academic writing requriements and includes links to Argumentative (Persuasive) Writing, Essay Writing, and How to Write a Research Paper.