Dorling Kindersley
Clauses
A thorough worksheet takes your class through main clauses and subordinate clauses, or independent clauses and dependent clauses. With several practice sentences and easy-to-understand instructions, the activity would be a good addition...
Curated OER
If Sentences: Using commas correctly
Remind your class how to properly write sentences and place commas when using the word if. This PowerPoint differentiates subordinate and main clauses. It also provides great sentence examples.
Curated OER
Grammar Bytes: Coordination and Subordination
For high school students, this resource could provide a quick and easy way to review sentence structure. The grammar presentation focuses on the use of main and subordinate clauses. It could be used as a test preparation tool.
Curated OER
The Complex Sentence
Develop the writing skills of your middle and high schoolers with this learning exercise on complex, compound, and simple sentences. This resource assumes your learners are familiar with simple and compound sentences, so only the complex...
Curated OER
Misplaced and Dangling Participles
Help! I’ve misplaced my modifier! Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles are the subject of a worksheet that first defines basic terms and then offers examples of correct usage. Armed with this information, young grammarians attack...
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 Conjunctive Adverb
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a conjunctive adverb in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Essential Clause
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an essential clause in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Sentence Fragment
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a sentence fragment.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Sentence Fragment
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a sentence fragment.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Fused Sentence
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a fused, or run-on, sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Subordinate Conjunction
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a subordinating conjunction, a subordinate conjunction, in the context of a sentence.
Other
Colgate University: Clauses, Conjunctions, and Punctuation
This grammar tutorial explains constructing sentences using independent and dependent clauses with correct punctuation.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Sentence Fragments
This writing lab site defines sentence fragments and gives a tip to help determine whether or not a group of words is a fragment.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Conditional Sentences. Main Clause: Will, if Clause: Will
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the topic of conditional sentences. In this resource, a main clause with the word "will" and a dependent clause with a future tense verb, along with the word "if" as a subordinate conjunction,...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
University of North Carolina
Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons
What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Punctuation Patterns
An interactive tutorial that describes and defines basic punctuation patterns in the English language. Includes punctuation of phrase, clauses, and complete sentences.
Vancouver Island University
Malaspina: Punctuating Between Main Clauses
Four printable exercises in which punctuation errors need to be corrected. 2.1 requires correction of compound sentences by putting in commas or semicolons where needed and getting rid of comma splices. 2.2 requires comma splice...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Main & Subordinate Clauses
This page from an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides definitions and examples of main and subordinate (independent and dependent) clauses. It also provides an interactive exercise on identifying these types of...
Rutgers University
Rutgers Univ.: Guide to Grammar and Style: Dependent Versus Independent Clauses
This site has a section from an online source called the Guide to Grammar and Style which provides an explanation of the difference between dependent and independent clauses.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Complete Sentence
The goal of this site is to be able to recognize a complete sentence when you see one. It lists several characteristics of a complete sentence and provides links to various parts of the sentence.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: If Clause Quiz
This exercise, intended for nonnative English speakers (ESL), provides practice constructing sentences with dependent and independent clauses. Offers solutions without detailed explanation.