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Handout
University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Handout
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: School Publishers: Multimedia Grammar Glossary

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Designed as a complement to Harcourt's Trophies Reading series, this handy grammar glossary allows you to look up grammar terms typically covered in grades 1-5. For each term, you will see a definition, sample sentence (sometimes...
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Handout
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Compound Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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Handout
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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Handout
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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Website
Other

New Vista High School: Guideline for Combining Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This document explains the difference between simple, compound, and complex sentences and when each should be used.
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Quia

Quia: Sentence Structure

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A twenty-four-question, interactive quiz asking students to answer questions about and to identify simple, compound, and complex sentences. When finished, students can submit answers to see the correct answers as well as their percentage...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Repairing Run on Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Handout
English Club

English Club: Sentence Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This EnglishClub tutorial discusses the importance of using sentence variety in the context of paragraphs. The tutorial provides information about sentence types, sentence patterns, and sentence lengths.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Grammar Pre Learner Week 3 Relative Pronouns

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this TES Blendspace, students will have access to six multimedia resources that will help them learn about relative pronouns.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Tu3083 Simple, Complex and Compound Sentences

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Sentence Types

For Teachers 5th - 8th Standards
Lessons and materials to teach simple, compound, and complex sentences to middle school students.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Types and Comma Rules

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A 21-part learning module including links to texts, images, videos, exercises, and websites on simple, compound, and complex sentences and their rules for comma use.
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Handout
TES Global

Tes: Sentences: Simple, Compound and Complex

For Students 5th - 9th Standards
[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.
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Semicolon Between Dependent and Independent Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Rules and examples for using semicolons with complex sentences.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Complex Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Nine slides introducing complex sentences, dependent clauses, and independent clauses and explaining how to identify and create them.
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Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Connecting Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes defining dependent and independent clauses, followed by an eleven-slide PowerPoint presentation defining and giving examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences. More notes explain subordinating conjunctions, conjunctive...
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Website
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Grammar Basics: Types of Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides multiple resources on the different types of sentences. Students can observe a presentation on simple, compound, and complex sentences, watch a video [4:19] about simple sentences, and link to a video about compound...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Study Zone: Adjective Clauses 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive exercise consisting on one example and six questions. Students look at the example and then complete each question by correctly combining two sentences while using an adjective clause. Students can check their answers...
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Fun Trivia

Fun Trivia: Sentence Structure Challenge Trivia Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Semicolons and Conjunctive Adverb

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An eight-slide presentation explaining semicolons, their usage rules, and how they are properly used in sentences with conjunctive adverbs. L.9-10.2a Punc/Indep Clause
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SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Quiz: Compound and Complex Sentences

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This resource offers a short, five-question quiz on compound and complex sentences. It gives information, explanations, and the correct answers.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Complex and Compound Complex Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Activity
University College London

The Internet Grammar of English: Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.