In this instructional activity, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive...

Learn how to use and understand the purpose of main clauses and subordinate clauses.

This section of an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying how clauses function in sentences (as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs).

This section of an online grammar guide provides instructions and examples for using subordinate (dependent) clauses as nouns in constructing sentences.

Learn to use relative pronouns to link clauses together!

This site is set up like a quiz with ten questions involving various groups of words that must be identified as either a phrase or a clause.