Curated OER
Conditional Grammar Quiz- Conditional 0, 1, 2, and 3
In this language arts worksheet, learners answer 5 multiple choice questions in which they choose a phrase to complete a conditional statement. All sentences have the word "if" and students select the most correct way to end the sentence.
Curated OER
Non-Defining Relative Clauses
In this non-defining relative clauses worksheet, 7th graders review and discuss what non-defining relative clauses are and how to use them in writing. Students answer six questions regarding relative clauses.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Absolute Phrase
Understanding how phrases are built and function will be an invaluable tool for students. This tutorial features many examples to help the student in grasping grammar concepts.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Possessive Forms
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Realism: Clauses
This lesson focuses on clauses including dependent, independent, adjective, adverb, and noun clauses. It also explains the use of subordinate conjunctions, relative pronouns, and relative adverbs and provides examples. It features a...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Grammar/writing Ii: Instruction Clauses
This lesson on grammar and writing focuses on clauses including dependent and independent clauses and run-on and comma splice sentences. It features links to "Purdue OWL: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses," "Purdue OWL:...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Sentence Types
This 10 question quiz asks students to read sentences and label them as to type by selecting from options given. There are review links given to study before taking the quiz if desired; it is scored and feedback is provided when...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Center for Writing Studies: Grammar Handbook
Use this handbook to review specific grammar or usage areas, including parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentence structure, and common usage problems. L.9-10.1 Grammar/Usage, L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar Collection
In this No Nonsense Grammar Collection, students explore a range of commonly taught grammar principles for elementary and middle schoolers with these short, fun videos and activities. From the difference between dependent and independent...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Clause Practice Exercise
The Tongue Untied is a guide to grammar, punctuation, and style for journalists, but it provides great practice on recognizing clauses. The quiz is twenty questions long with multiple choice answers, looking at independent clauses,...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Subject
Part of larger website devoted to sentence structure, grammar, and writing skills, this tutorial teaches the subject of a sentence--the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing
A treasure of grammar and writing information. Index links broken down to sentence level, paragraph level, and essay level. Site also contains PDF samples of business writing and research papers, PowerPoint presentations, interactive...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Punctuation Between 2 Independent Clauses
What is the correct punctuation between two independent clauses? Use this site to learn more about the rules to follow.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Semicolon
What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Quotation Marks
Learn more about using quotation marks properly through this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from this helpful site.
University College London
University College London: Subordinate Clauses,semantic
This section of a chapter from an online English-grammar book from the University College London discusses the uses of subordinate clauses (dependent clauses) in sentences. It also provides an exercise in identifying the purposes of...
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]
University of Washington
Mary Nell's Grammar Summaries
The University of Washington provides an excellent collection of grammar-related summaries. The collection includes material on verb tenses, agreement, noncount nouns, and many other topics.
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 Adjective Clause
Notes and examples explaining how to recognize an adjective clause, how to punctuate it correctly, and how to avoid writing it as a sentence fragment.