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Understanding Douglass’s Words: Learning to Read
How is a sentence like the human body? Scholars think about the comparison as they view an image of the human anatomy and begin to complete an Anatomy of a Sentence anchor chart. They review roots, prefixes, and suffixes and then begin...
University of North Carolina
Sentence Patterns
In an ideal world, sentences in a college-level essay should feature a variety of sentence types. In reality, most papers stick to simple and compound sentences, two of the types a handout on sentence patterns discusses. Part of a larger...
Curated OER
Combining Sentences: Correct Punctuation of Phrases and Clauses
Break down the particularities of sentence combining with this explanatory handout. Using three example sentences, the handout demonstrates a variety of ways to combine sentences. This resource could act as a reference sheet for your...
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The Complex Sentence: Correcting Fragments
After defining and offering cogent examples of fragments and complex sentences, this instructional activity presents pupils with two passages. One they must revise. For the second, an excerpt from an E.B. White essay, they must identify...
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Punctuation (The Comma vs. The Semicolon)
Explore English by participating in a grammar correcting activity. Elementary and middle schoolers distinguish when to use commas from when to use semicolons. Then they correct twelve sentences by placing commas and semicolons in the...
BW Walch
Daily Warm-Ups: Grammar and Usage
If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...
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Intermediate Level: Clauses and Sentence Structure
In this clauses and sentence structure instructional activity, students identify independent and dependent clauses. Students correct sentences that contain errors in structure.
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Grade 9 ELA Module 3, Unit 3, Lesson 7
As the unit on research writing draws to a close, class members continue to revise and edit their papers, this time focusing on grammar, spelling, and punctuation (colon and semicolon).
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Sentence Patterns I: Locating Subjects and Verbs
Tighten up your class's grammar with this straightforward worksheet on sentence patterns. After a short review about sentence patterns, clauses, and subjects and verbs, ten questions prompt young writers to identify the parts of the...
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Subordinate Clauses
In this grammar instructional activity, learners read about subordinate clauses. Students read about adjective clauses and adverb clauses.
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Pronouns and Clauses
In this pronouns and clauses learning exercise, students complete a passage using 7 appropriate pronouns, write how many clauses there are in 4 sentences, underline the main clause in each one and write a short story with a beginning, a...
K12 Reader
Relative Pronouns
Do your learners know what relative pronouns are? How about relative clauses? They can practice identifying both of these by completing this worksheet. There are 25 sentences here for pupils to work with.
Curated OER
How to Avoid Sentence Fragments
Finding dependent clauses separated from the rest of a sentence? Main clauses without verbs or subjects? Sounds like you are plagued by sentence fragments and that your writers need a quick review of this common grammatical error....
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Sentence (Structure) Recognition Practice
In this sentence clauses worksheet, sixth and seventh graders read ten sentences and write down whether the sentence is: simple, compound, complex or compound-complex.
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The Compound-Complex Sentence
After reading a series of definitions and studying examples, partners craft five of their own compound-complex sentences.
K12 Reader
Writing with Subordinating Conjunctions
Challenge young grammarians to turn sets of phrases into sentences by adding subordinating conjunctions on a short learning exercise.
Rosetta Stone
Absolute Possessive Pronouns
Pronouns are meant to replace nouns in a sentence, but don't replace this resource so easily! A collection of worksheets challenges young grammarians with fill-in-the-blanks, word searches, and sentence diagramming.
Book Units Teacher
Where the Red Fern Grows: Understanding Sentences
Using sentences from the book Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, this presentation explores the use of correct grammar. It starts out by giving examples of complete and incomplete sentences, and then moves on to nouns, verbs, and...
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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences
What kind of sentence is it? This can be a complex subject, so don't compound the difficulty by skipping over the topic! It's simple, just have your class read and go over the information here and then complete the included exercise.
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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences in Your Writing
Encourage your young writers to make their writing more interesting by varying their sentence structures. Each color-coded slide offers definitions and models of sentence forms. The final slide in the presentation presents viewers with...
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Clauses and Conjunctions
In this grammar worksheet, students read about clauses and conjunctions. Students read about the different kinds of clauses, such as dependent and independent.
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Dependent Upon Clauses
Young scholars say and write simple and compound sentences addressing the clauses that are used. In this sentences lesson plan, students try and speak with simple sentences only to see if they can talk without clauses.
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Commas vs Semicolons
Middle schoolers arrange sentences to create correct punctuation use with commas and semicolons. Using FANBOYS, they define and recognize subordinate (dependent) vs. independent clauses, and other necessary parts of a sentence. They...
Ms. McLaughlin's Homework Page
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Find out just how much your pupils know about simple sentences, subjects and predicates, sentence fragments, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, compound sentences, complex sentences, and more! This review page includes...