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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Education: Language: Conventions: Relative Adverbs

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Notes and examples explaining relative adverbs and how they are used in sentences. Includes practice worksheet.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Elements of Sentence Construction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on the Elements of Sentence Construction including subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses, compound sentence elements, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and fused sentences.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Kinds of Sentences and Their Punctuation

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on the kinds of sentences and how they are punctuation including simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Exercises

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page offers a list of links to exercises/quizzes on the following topics: Parts of Speech/Grammar; Prepositional and Verbal Phrases; Adjectival, Adverbial, Nominal Phrases, and Clauses; Punctuation, Sentence Structure, Usage,...
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Phrases: Prepositional and Verbal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers links to quizzes/exercises covering Prepositional and Verbal Phrases including participials, gerunds, and infinitives.
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Towson University

Towson University: Distinguish Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 3

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
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Towson University

Towson University: Distinguishing Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 4

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
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Towson University

Towson University: Distinguishing Between Adverbials and Adjectivals Exercise 5

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a 20-question, self-grading quiz/exercise on Distinguishing between Adverbials and Adjectivals.
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University of Washington

Mary Nell's Grammar Summaries

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Washington provides an excellent collection of grammar-related summaries. The collection includes material on verb tenses, agreement, noncount nouns, and many other topics.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Subordinate Clause

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The section of this site dedicated to the subordinate clause provides the user with skills to be able to recognize subordinate clauses through a list of subordinate conjunctions and relative pronouns along with examples and reminders.
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ACT360 Media

Act Den: Writing Den

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Need some extra help in spelling, grammar, and writing? Search no further. The writing den gives great tips for sentence structure and even on writing essays. A lot of great information for language arts students and teachers.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Teaching Students to Compose a Power Paragraph [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This PDF lesson, POWER PARAGRAPH, focuses on analysis and will also help students to understand structure in a paragraph. The "power" concept teaches the students to organize their sentences according to different levels of importance....
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Logical Fallacies

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site from the St. Cloud State University provides many links in this index with general writing help. Under "Development" you'll find "Sensory Details." Under "Logical Fallicies" you'll find a link by the same name. Look under...
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Main Clause

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Grammar tutorial for understanding the main clause (independent clause) and distinguishing the subordinate (dependent) clause. Provides examples and instructions for using clauses in constructing sentences.
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ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Paragraphs

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
How do you write a paragraph? Use this site to learn more about the different parts of a paragraph.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Subordinate Conjunction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a subordinating conjunction, a subordinate conjunction, in the context of a sentence.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Subordinate Conjunction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a subordinating conjunction, a subordinate conjunction, in the context of a sentence.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Transitions and Transitional Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about how to use transition words and transitional devices to connect sentences, paragraphs, and sections in an essay.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Writing Concisely

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page compares wordy writing to a art gallery cluttered with a mixture of great works and poor attempts making it hard to see the great works. Remove the clutter, write concisely so the reader gets the point of the paper. It offers...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Unnecessary Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains the need to revise writing to remove unnecessary words and phrases to produce clear, concise writing. Examples are provided.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Wordiness

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page focuses on reducing wordiness in writing by using more concise language, and avoiding extra-long words and sentences.
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Harvard University

Harvard University: Games With Words: The Communication Game

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A study in communication where participants follow comprehension and logic clues to determine which statements are true and false.
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Other

D'youville College: Core Parts of a Sentence

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing lab provides a series of examples on identifying one of the two main components of complete sentences, the subject and the verb. Correctly identifying these parts will result in the ability to write complete sentences.
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Other

Critical Reading: Subject and Predicate

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of a larger site on "The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing," this section on the simple sentence focuses on the subject and the predicate. Definitions and examples are provided along with a section on...