Instructional Video
Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary: Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences

3rd - 4th Standards
Learn what sentences are, and learn to use simple, compound, and complex sentences effectively.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Semicolons

9th - 10th
A screencast lesson introducing the semicolon and explaining its usage. Several examples are provided. [2:04]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Compound Complex Sentences

9th - 10th Standards
Compound-complex sentences are compound sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them. Paige and Rosie explain how to spot and use them.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Coordinating Conjunctions

9th - 10th Standards
Coordinating conjunctions connect parts of sentences to each other. David explains how.
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Simple and Compound Sentences

9th - 10th Standards
A simple sentence contains one independent clause. A compound sentence contains more than one! Put another way: a simple sentence contains a subject and a predicate, but a compound sentence contains more than one subject and more than...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Run Ons and Comma Splices

9th - 10th Standards
A run-on sentence doesn't separate any of its independent clauses with the punctuation that it needs, and a comma splice incorrectly separates two independent clauses with a comma, instead of a comma-and-coordinating-conjunction.
Instructional Video
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Coordinating Conjunctions

9th - 10th Standards
This lesson introduces coordinating conjunctions and explaining their use and punctuation within compound sentences. [1:18]