TES Global
Blendspace: Tu3083 Simple, Complex and Compound Sentences
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.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Senternce Structure Worksheets
In this learning module, students will learn more about various sentence structures. Reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students via different instructional options.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Sentence Structure Activities
In this sentence structures learning module, students will learn more about clauses and phrases via a hands-on approach. PowerPoint lessons, downloadable content, games, and reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed...
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."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 10.1: Parts of the Sentence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples to demonstrate how to identify independent and dependent clauses, prepositions and prepositional phrases, participle phrases and gerund...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Complete Sentence Quiz
What makes a sentence a complete sentence? Take this quiz to see if you can spot the complete sentence out of four choices.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complex Sentences
Nine slides introducing complex sentences, dependent clauses, and independent clauses and explaining how to identify and create them.
University of Victoria (Canada)
University of Victoria: Study Zone: Adjective Clauses 1
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...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
University of North Carolina
Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons
What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Clauses
This online grammar guide provides a definition of clauses and how they function in sentences.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Main & Subordinate Clauses
This page from an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides definitions and examples of main and subordinate (independent and dependent) clauses. It also provides an interactive exercise on identifying these types of...
Rutgers University
Rutgers Univ.: Guide to Grammar and Style: Dependent Versus Independent Clauses
This site has a section from an online source called the Guide to Grammar and Style which provides an explanation of the difference between dependent and independent clauses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Phrases and Clauses
Learn to spot the differences between phrases and clauses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dependent and Independent Clauses
Independent clauses can be sentences. Dependent clauses can't! Let's take a deeper dive into what that looks like in this exercise.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phrase and Clause Placement
Choose the best placement for the phrase or clause in the sentences provided!
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: The Subjects
Defines and explains how to find the subject of a sentence. Gives several examples of subjects in different types of sentences.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Combining Sentences
An exercise where students combine two or three sentences into one sentence containing only one independent clause. When finished, students can check their answers by comparing them to the suggested combination.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Combining Sentences
An exercise where students read six sets of sentences and combine each set into one sentence containing only one independent clause. Answers are typed into a box, and then students can check their work against the suggested answers to...
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: If Clause Quiz
This exercise, intended for nonnative English speakers (ESL), provides practice constructing sentences with dependent and independent clauses. Offers solutions without detailed explanation.
Other
D'youville College: Clauses
This online writing lab provides a series of examples on identifying clauses, both independent and dependent. A section is also included on putting clauses together with examples.
Other
Legal Writing: Dependent Clauses & Phrases
This writing guide for law students provides information on distinguishing phrases and independent and dependent clauses.
English Zone
English zone.com: Noun Clauses: Embedded Questions
An interactive exercise with four examples followed by ten practice sentences. Students combine two sentences by starting each with a noun clause. When finished, students can check their work to see how many answers are correct.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe/mc Graw Hill: Combining Sentences With Appositives
An exercise consisting of ten pairs of sentences. Students are asked to combine the two sentences using an appositive and type the new sentence into the box. When finished, students can check the answers to see how they did.