Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Realism: Clauses
This lesson focuses on clauses including dependent, independent, adjective, adverb, and noun clauses. It also explains the use of subordinate conjunctions, relative pronouns, and relative adverbs and provides examples. It features a...
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Technology and the World: Technology and Grammar: Part 1
This lesson focuses on complete sentences, fragments, subordinating conjunctions, and dependent clauses. It defines each and provides examples; then provides a self-assessment in which students read sentences or parts of sentences and...
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Conditional Sentences. Main Clause: Will, if Clause: Will
This Grammarly Handbook resource clarifies the topic of conditional sentences. In this resource, a main clause with the word "will" and a dependent clause with a future tense verb, along with the word "if" as a subordinate conjunction,...
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...
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing 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).
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjective Clause
This lesson focuses on adjective clauses; it defines adjective, clause, and adjective clause. It explains the function of adjective clauses, how they are formed using relative pronouns or adjectives, how to identify them in a sentence,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adverb Clauses
This lesson focuses on adverb clauses; it defines adverb, clause, and adverb clause. It discusses the functions of adverb clauses, how they are formed, what questions they answer in the sentence, and provides examples.
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.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Crucible: Fragments and Run on Sentences
This lesson focuses on fragments and run-on sentences including explaining dependent and independent clauses, fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and coordinating conjunctions. It provides examples and links to quizzes.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sentence Fragments Exercise 1
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Complete Sentence Fragments Exercise 2
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise : Sentence Fragments Exercise 3
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences
This slideshow lesson focuses on compound complex sentences. It explains what they are including the requirements, how they are put together, how to punctuate them, and provides examples showing the various sentence structures.
University College London
University College London: Clauses and Sentences
This section of an online English-grammar book introduces and provides examples of different types of clauses. Because this is from a British source, it uses different terms to identify the types of clauses, calling an independent...
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.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Essential Clause
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an essential clause in the context of a sentence.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Fragments and Types of Sentences
Ten questions asking students to identify the difference between complete sentences and sentence fragments.
University College London
University College London: Subordinate Clauses,semantic
This section of a chapter from an online English-grammar book from the University College London discusses the uses of subordinate clauses (dependent clauses) in sentences. It also provides an exercise in identifying the purposes of...
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Grammar: Clauses
This site discusses the two main types of clauses. Content includes instructions for and examples of using clauses to build different types of sentences and information on recognizing types of clauses.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Main and Subordinate Clauses
In this lesson, we are going to learn how to use and understand main clauses and subordinate clauses to improve your writing.
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."
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Comma After Introductory Clauses
Rules and examples for using commas correctly with an introductory clause.