Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Complex and Compound Complex Sentences: Quiz
Choose the sentence that correctly combines two statements in order to create a complex or compound-complex sentence in this seven-question quiz.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complex Sentences
Nine slides introducing complex sentences, dependent clauses, and independent clauses and explaining how to identify and create them.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
Learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.
Other
New Vista High School: Guideline for Combining Sentences
This document explains the difference between simple, compound, and complex sentences and when each should be used.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Structure
A six-part learning module including links to information, exercises, and learning games on dependent and independent clauses as well as simple, compound, and complex sentences.
University College London
The Internet Grammar of English: Sentences
This site from the Internet Grammar of English of the University College of London provides a general overview of sentence structure. Content includes an online exercise, and is worth checking out on the subject.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences
In this instructional activity, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive...
TES Global
Blendspace: Types of Sentences
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while learning about clauses and simple, compound, and complex sentences.
The Tongue Untied
University of Oregon the Tongue Untied: Semicolon
Discover more about semicolon usage when you visit this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from the examples listed for semicolon use.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Avoiding Run on Sentences Practice Exercise
An exercise with ten run-on sentences where students are asked to choose which re-written sentence is correct. A percentage score is given at the end of the exercise.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Senternce Structure Worksheets
In this learning module, students will learn more about various sentence structures. Reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students via different instructional options.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Cool, Cool Commas
This tutorial focuses on 4 basic comma rules that cover 85% of all comma use: series, compound sentences, direct address, and introductory clauses. It provides an audio clip explaining these 4 rules and 5 short slide shows: one for each...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces compound-complex sentences and how they are constructed. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Compound-Complex Sentences."
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...
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple Sentences: Lesson 4
This lesson discusses simple sentences, explains their requirements, provides examples, and offers a quiz to show understanding.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Avoiding Fragments
This entry focuses on forming complete sentences by identifying fragments, comma splices, and fused sentences and learning how to correct them. It provides the rules, examples of errors, and examples of how to correct each type of error.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Commas
This comma tutorial include 5 slideshows: 1. how and when to use or not use commas, 2. proper use of commas in coordinating clauses, 3. proper use of commas in lists, 4. proper use of commas in introductory phrases, and 5. proper use of...
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverb
An eight-slide presentation explaining semicolons, their usage rules, and how they are properly used in sentences with conjunctive adverbs. L.9-10.2a Punc/Indep Clause
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comma Sense
Notes, a PowerPoint presentation, and a video introducing commas, their purpose, and common usage mistakes. Comma rules and examples concerning coordinating clauses, items in a list, introductory elements, and nouns of direct address are...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Harcourt: School Publishers: Multimedia Grammar Glossary
Designed as a complement to Harcourt's Trophies Reading series, this handy grammar glossary allows you to look up grammar terms typically covered in grades 1-5. For each term, you will see a definition, sample sentence (sometimes...
Get It Write
Get It Write: Using the Semicolon
Clear lesson on when to use (and when not to use) a semicolon. The article ends with a self-test and answers. L.9-10.2a Punc/Indep Clause