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English Worksheets Land: Commas With Introductory Phrases [Pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Practice placing commas after introductory elements in ten sentences.
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Comma Rules

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Ten detailed comma rules are found on this page.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Sentence Fragment

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a sentence fragment.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Elements of Sentence Construction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on the Elements of Sentence Construction including subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses, compound sentence elements, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and fused sentences.
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English Plus+

Grammar Slammer Glossary: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a basic definition of conjunctions, with hypertext links to related terms (phrases, clauses, subordinate clauses, and main clauses). Addresses coordinate, correlative, and subordinate conjunctions.
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The Tongue Untied

University of Oregon the Tongue Untied: Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discover more about semicolon usage when you visit this informative resource. Students and teachers will benefit from the examples listed for semicolon use.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A treasure of grammar and writing information. Index links broken down to sentence level, paragraph level, and essay level. Site also contains PDF samples of business writing and research papers, PowerPoint presentations, interactive...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: The Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
What is a semicolon and how do you use it in your writing? Check out this tutorial to learn more about this punctuation mark in English sentence structure.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Participle

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify participles in the context of sentences.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Transitions Between Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial teaches writing students how to share convincing in well-written sentences that are connected from one to the other--that is, they exhibit transition. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/trans
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University of North Carolina at Pembroke: Adjectivals

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke provides instructions and examples for using different types of phrases (prepositional, appositive, and participial) as adjectives in sentences.
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McGraw Hill

Mayfield Handbook: Restrictive and Nonrestrictive

For Students 9th - 10th
This section of the Mayfield Handbook on restrictive and nonrestrictive modifiers and clauses features a definition with links to other parts of the sentence (modifiers, clauses, phrases) along with examples of restrictive and...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Parts Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This quiz is "a very basic quiz" that covers the various parts of a sentence (clause, gerund, adjective, preposition) in a ten question matching format.
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: The Comma

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The University of Ottawa's Writing Center developed this site. The major sections of the site are "Comma Usage" and "Superfluous Commas." Right and wrong examples are included, along with links for definitions.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Commas With Introductory Elements: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces how to use commas with introductory elements. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Commas with Introductory Elements."
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Kryss Tal: Grammar: Introduction to Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a very good overview of grammar components. Grammar examples and links are provided.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Openers

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial focuses on adding variety to your writing with sentence openers. A PowerPoint presentation explains sentence openers and gives examples of ways to create interesting sentences, such as beginning with a prepositional phrase,...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Editing for Sentence Structure

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.
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University of Sydney (Australia)

The Write Site: Practice 4: Sentence Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive lesson engages students in determining "why" each word grouping is a sentence fragment. The lesson involves moving a computer's mouse from each fragment to the reason the word grouping is an incomplete thought.
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Using English: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive A-Z index of grammar terms with explanations and examples. Each entry provides links to activities and other resources available on the site for more practice on that aspect of grammar. Suggested activities are often...
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Towson University

Towson University: Subject Verb Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This webpage provides a list of nine rules for subject-verb agreement including examples with detailed explanations including arrows and notes as well as exceptions to the rules. It also provides links to terms which are defined with...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Direct and Indirect Objects

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on direct and indirect objects. It defines and gives examples of each and explains that direct objects can be words, phrases, or clauses while indirect objects can be words, phrases, or found in...
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: Exercise 4: Identifying the Different Types of Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
Practice sentence skills by identifying the type of fragment in each short passage: subordinate clause, participle phrase, infinitive phrase, afterthought, lonely verb, or appositive.
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Ted Nellen

Cyber English (By Ted Nellen): Fiction: Short Story & Novel Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a short story or novel fact sheet offered as a Word document or a PDF. It includes places for title; author; URL; list of important nouns, verbs, phrases, and clauses; setting (includes definition); characterization (including...

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