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.
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.
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.
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."
TES Global
Tes: Sentences: Simple, Compound and Complex
[Free Registration/Login Required] This downloadable reference provides notes and examples of different types of sentences. Simple sentences, compound sentences, and complex sentences are discussed on the resource pages.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
TES Global
Blendspace: Compound/complex Sentence Review
An eleven-part learning module with links to images and videos to use while reviewing compound and complex sentences.
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: 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.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Quiz: Compound and Complex Sentences
This resource offers a short, five-question quiz on compound and complex sentences. It gives information, explanations, and the correct answers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences
In this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Learners will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies
Students apply the mechanical advantages and problem-solving capabilities of six types of simple machines (wedge, wheel and axle, lever, inclined plane, screw, pulley) as they discuss modern structures in the spirit of the engineers and...
Quia
Quia: Sentence Structure Practice Game
An interactive game focused on sentence structure. Students answer fifteen increasingly difficult questions about simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in order to win the game. Three hints are available, but if a...
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.
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: Complex Sentences
Nine slides introducing complex sentences, dependent clauses, and independent clauses and explaining how to identify and create them.