Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Sentence Meaning: Silly Sentence Mix Up
A lesson plan in which students use sentence strips with various phrases to create sentences. Materials are included.
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
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.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Avoiding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences
This entry explains and provides examples of comma splices and fused sentences and how to fix them.
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.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: 15 Shocking Student Writing Fails (Infographic)
This infographic is provided to help alert students about common writing mistakes. The following types of errors are discussed: commas, verb tenses, subject-verb agreement, apostrophes, pronouns, and prepositions.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Sentences: Compound, Complex, Compound Complex
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use a variety of sentence structures including compound, complex, and compound-complex.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Varying
A seven-part learning module with links to texts and videos about simple, compound, and complex sentences and varying them in their writing.
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Predicates, Objects, Complements
This is a glossary covering predicates, objects, and complements. The information on predicates includes a simple predicate, compound predicate, complete predicate, predicate adjective, and predicate nominative.
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...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Pronouns and Pronoun Antecedent Agreement
This tutorial-quiz for pronoun usage features many examples of where pronouns fit in a sentence to achieve proper antecedent agreement.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart, students will apply what they have learned about nouns and adjectives to make complete sentences. This is a cloze activity which scaffolds learning by providing students with context...
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Abstract Nouns
The composition of a noun is more than just a person, place or thing. Use this resource to study examples of nouns and their many uses.
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.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Comma
This entry focuses on the rules for comma use including listing the uses, explaining the rules, and providing detailed examples.
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