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...
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]
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Story Starting Participles
For this lesson, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned lesson pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of...
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.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Sentence Structure Review
A good site that gives a list of sentences with explanations. Students must choose whether each sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-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.
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.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences
In this lesson, students will explore compound sentences and coordinating conjunctions. They will also combine simple sentences into compound sentence.
Quia
Quia: Simple and Compound Sentences
Do you know the difference between simple and compound sentences? Find out what you know about by taking this practice quiz.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences
This lesson introduces students to simple and compound sentences and gives them a chance to try identifying them for themselves.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple Sentences: Lesson 4
This lesson discusses simple sentences, explains their requirements, provides examples, and offers a quiz to show understanding.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Sentences
This lesson introduces compound sentences and how they are constructed.
TES Global
Blendspace: Compound Sentences
A learning module that includes links to videos, and activities on compound sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Word Order: Creating Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students move words from the bottom of the page to create sentences.
Quia
Quia: Math Rounding Fractions
An interactive exercise where students read two sentences and then choose the conjunction that would best join them together. Correct answers are provided for any missed, and score is kept throughout the exercise.
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.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Direct Objects
This site, in addition to defining and providing examples for direct objects, gives various tips on identifying direct objects, both simple and complex.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Practice 4 (English I Writing)
Label every sentence and change simple sentences into compound and compound-complex sentences as appropriate.