Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining: Practice 2
In this lesson, you are going to practice evaluating sentences, adding to sentences, and combining sentences. You are also going to do sentence imitation to boost your sentence savvy.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Definition of a Sentence
The Guide to Grammar and Writing defines many of the terms common to sentence development, such as the parts of speech, or provides links for those definitions. Discusses strategies for adding variety to sentence structures. Includes...
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Exercise 6
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Transformations Exercise 2
This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on making Sentence Patterns Transformations.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Hurricane Blowing In
Using Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief as a model, writers will find a rhythm in their writing by varying sentence lengths while creating a scene to draw in their readers. The writer will paint a picture with words in order to describe...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Revision Lesson: Analyzing First Words and Sentence Length
After students are given time to think about the topic -"Alone Time with an Adult I Care about," they are given ten to fifteen minutes to write between five and ten sentences on the topic. They ten are told they will revise their...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Sentence Structure
Tips on how to vary sentence structure to strengthen writing.
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.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Sentence Style
A list of three techniques used to develop sentence style: Sentence Variety, Sentence Emphasis, and Wordiness. Each technique links to more information.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
English Club
English Club: Sentence Variety
This EnglishClub tutorial discusses the importance of using sentence variety in the context of paragraphs. The tutorial provides information about sentence types, sentence patterns, and sentence lengths.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Editing Techniques: Checking Your Sentence Structure
A ten-slide presentation demonstrating how to edit writing for sentence variety and how to identify and correct sentence errors such as fragments, run-ons, and comma splices.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Length and Style
Notes introducing how author's vary the length of sentences in order to express their voice and style. Examples from three literary texts are provided, "Rappaccini's Daughter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Hills Like White Elephants" by...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Length and Style
This slideshow lesson focuses on sentence length and style; it lists four types of sentences: fragments, short sentences, long sentences, and run-ons. It explains the effect that is achieved by using each of these sentence types for...
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: Effective Introduction and Conclusion Sentence Structure Variety
Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Academic Writing: Sentence Variety: Strategies for Variation
This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will review the different types of clauses and sentences. You will also use editing strategies to help you add variety to your sentences. A step-by-step...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Strengthen Sentence Variety
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on revision strategies to strengthen sentence variety including varying sentence beginnings, ending, combining with coordinators, and combining with...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4
In this lesson, you will use labeling to decide what changes are necessary to guarantee sentence variety in your writing. Practice exercises are provided.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strengthen Sentence Variety and Sentence Combining
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will learn strategies for evaluating the quality of the sentences in an essay and making changes to achieve greater sentence variety and effectiveness.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Varied Sentence Types
While they aren't wrong, overusing simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! [0:44]