Sophia Learning
Sophia: Connecting Clauses
Notes defining dependent and independent clauses, followed by an eleven-slide PowerPoint presentation defining and giving examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences. More notes explain subordinating conjunctions, conjunctive...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simple and Compound Sentences
Identify which sentences are simple and which are compound.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rearranging Simple and Compound Sentences
Identify and arrange simple and compound sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Sentences
An eight-slide presentation introducing compound sentences and explaining how to write them and why writers use them.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple Sentences: Oh So Happy!
Six slides introducing simple sentences, explaining how they are formed, and demonstrating how they can be linked together to create a compound sentence.
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...
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 5 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 5 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 5 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 5 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 6 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 6 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
Englishfor Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 6 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 7 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 3: Level 7 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 7 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 7 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Repairing Run on Sentences
An exercise with ten sentences to help students identify and correct run-on sentences. Students read the sentence and then click on the answer choice that corrects any errors in the sentence. After making their choice, students can see...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: English 4; Loyalty and Betrayal
A learning module asking students to analyze fiction, examine symbolism and cultural context, read a section of The Kite Runner, practice context clues and Greek and Latin roots, and practice sentence variety with compound and complex...
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.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
You will label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.
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.
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.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo: One Word Sentences and How They Work
Emma Bryce explains how one-word sentences illustrate some lexical ambiguities that can turn ordinary words and sentences into mazes that mess with our minds. [3:28]
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Writing: Compound Sentences
A five-part learning module with links to texts, websites, and a video on compound sentences.
TES Global
Blendspace: Compound Sentences & Fanboys
A five-part learning module with links to an image, videos, and texts about compound sentences and the coordinating conjunctions used to form them.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Comma vs. Semicolon: Compound Sentences
A handout with forty sentences for practicing comma and semicolon usage in compound sentences; answer key provided.