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Sophia: Complex Sentences
This slideshow lesson focuses on complex sentences; it explains what makes up a complex sentence: independent clause, dependent clause, and a subordinate conjunction. It discusses placement, order, and how to punctuate them accordingly.
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Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences
This slideshow lesson focuses on compound complex sentences. It explains what they are including the requirements, how they are put together, how to punctuate them, and provides examples showing the various sentence structures.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conjunctions: An Introduction
This slideshow lesson focuses on conjunctions; it defines conjunctions. It explains each of the three types of conjunctions: coordinating, subordinating, and correlative. It defines each, lists the conjunctions, and provides sentences...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Correcting Sentence Fragments
This slideshow lesson focuses on sentence fragments and how to correct them. It defines fragments, gives two methods for identifying them, provides various ways to correct them with examples, and discusses subordinators and fragments...
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.
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Sophia: Subordinating Conjunctions
This lesson focuses on subordinating conjunctions; it discusses their purpose, explains the questions they address, and provides a list of them. It also shows how to punctuate sentences with subordinate clauses based on their location in...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Subordinating Conjunctions
This slideshow lesson focuses on subordinating conjunctions by defining them, listing them, and providing examples showing placement and how to punctuate them correctly.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Subordinate Conjunctions
This video lesson focuses on subordinate conjunctions; it defines them and related terms such as dependent and independent clauses, provides a list of common subordinate conjunctions, and examples of their use. It also covers how to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adverb Clauses
This lesson focuses on adverb clauses; it defines adverb, clause, and adverb clause. It discusses the functions of adverb clauses, how they are formed, what questions they answer in the sentence, and provides examples.
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer Glossary: Conjunctions
This site offers a basic definition of conjunctions, with hypertext links to related terms (phrases, clauses, subordinate clauses, and main clauses). Addresses coordinate, correlative, and subordinate conjunctions.
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Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Subordinating Conjunction Rules [Pdf]
This PDF provides a writer's handout which covers the rules for using subordinating conjunctions. There are three complex sentence patterns to learn with subordinating conjunctions. Two patterns require you to make use of commas; one...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Beginning Sentences With "But", "And", or "Because": Lesson 3
This lesson goes over how to begin a sentence with 'but', 'and', or 'because'. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Beginning Sentences with "But", "And", or "Because"."
TES Global
Blendspace: Fanboys and Aaawwubbis (Compound and Complex)
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos and images on coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and their role in creating compound and complex sentences.