TES Global
Blendspace: Tu3083 Simple, Complex and Compound Sentences
A fourteen-part learning module can be used while teaching and reviewing sentence structures. This blendspace includes three video lessons, posters, and interactive practice activities.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rearranging Simple and Compound Sentences
Identify and arrange simple and compound sentences.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Complex and Compound Complex Sentences
Complex sentences are simple sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them. Compound-complex sentences are compound sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them.
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simple and Compound Sentences
Identify which sentences are simple and which are compound.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 1
This slideshow lesson defines and provides examples for each of the types of sentences: simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 3
A slideshow introducing simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex sentence types. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences."
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Sentences
An eight-slide presentation introducing compound sentences and explaining how to write them and why writers use them.
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.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Compound Sentences
A brief resource about compound sentences. Includes a definition and some examples. It also includes basic and advanced practice exercises on compound and complex sentences.
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.
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.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences
This slideshow lesson focuses on compound complex sentences. It explains what they are including the requirements, how they are put together, how to punctuate them, and provides examples showing the various sentence structures.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Sentences
An excellent site which outlines the types of sentences - simple, compound, and complex. Gives in-depth information and examples of each. Includes review exercises for practice or assessment.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complex Sentences
This slideshow lesson focuses on complex sentences; it explains what makes up a complex sentence: independent clause, dependent clause, and a subordinate conjunction. It discusses placement, order, and how to punctuate them accordingly.
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: Sentence Structure Challenge Trivia Quiz
A ten-question exercise where students read each sentence and decide if it is a simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any questions missed.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Kinds of Sentences and Their Punctuation
This entry focuses on the kinds of sentences and how they are punctuation including simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
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.
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Sentences
This lesson introduces compound sentences and how they are constructed.