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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses and Punctuation

For Students 9th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to edit an essay for correct punctuation of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and punctuation of contrasting expressions.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Restrictive/nonrestrictive Clauses and Punctuation

For Students 10th
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to edit an essay for correct punctuation of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and punctuation of contrasting expressions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Adjective Clauses and Relative Pronouns 2

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on adjective clauses and relative pronouns; it explains what an adjective clause requires and the questions it answers in the sentence. It provides a list of relative pronouns: who, which, that, whom, whose,...
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Restrictive & Nonrestrictive Clauses & Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson will teach you to identify a restrictive relative clause, also known as an essential clause, and a nonrestrictive relative clause, also known as a nonessential...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: On Track English I Writing: Editing

For Students 1st - 9th Standards
This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...
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Handout
The Tongue Untied

The Tongue Untied: Clauses: The Basics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Comma Setting Off Restrictive Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
This page explains that restrictive clauses (essential to the meaning of the sentence) should NOT be set off by commas, and provides examples. It also explains that restrictive clauses often begin with the word "that."
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Other

Legal Writing: Clauses Restrictive & Non Restrictive

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing guide for law students provides definitions and examples of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses and instructions for punctuating clauses correctly. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Such as Comma

For Students 9th - 10th
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about comma rules related to the phrase such as in a sentence. Examples of such as in non-restrictive clauses are included.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Comma Setting Off Non Restrictive Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
This page focuses on understanding what a non-restrictive clause is and that it must be set off by commas. It explains that non-restrictive clauses often use begin with the word "which" and offers examples.
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Get It Write

Get It Write: "Which" vs. "That"

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
If you are confused about when to use "that" or "which" when introducing relative clauses, this tutorial will make the usage clear. A brief quiz checks your understanding.
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Handout
McGraw Hill

Mayfield Handbook: Restrictive and Nonrestrictive

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the Mayfield Handbook on restrictive and nonrestrictive modifiers and clauses features a definition with links to other parts of the sentence (modifiers, clauses, phrases) along with examples of restrictive and...