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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Strengthen Sentence Variety

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on revision strategies to strengthen sentence variety including varying sentence beginnings, ending, combining with coordinators, and combining with...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Complex and Compound Complex Sentences: Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose the sentence that correctly combines two statements in order to create a complex or compound-complex sentence in this seven-question quiz.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: What Makes a Sentence?

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson will help students recognize that spoken sentences are represented in written language by specific sequences of words, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark. This lesson is short but it allows...
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BBC

Bbc: Skillswise: Word Grammar: Connectives

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
A short video introduces the concept of joining sentences using connective words. Includes three downloadable factsheets and five worksheets.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Combining Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe/mc Graw Hill: Combining Sentences With Appositives

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Quiz on Combining Sentences

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Sentence Variety: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on using sentence variety in composition to improve clarity and overall readability. It is 1 of 2 in the series titled "Sentence Variety."
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Other

New Vista High School: Guideline for Combining Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This document explains the difference between simple, compound, and complex sentences and when each should be used.
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University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Study Zone: Adjective Clauses 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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University of Victoria (Canada)

University of Victoria: Study Zone: Adjective Clauses in Object Position

For Students 6th - 8th
Four sets of two sentences that students are asked to combine by creating adjective clauses. Hints are available and possible correct answers are provided for students to check their work. A percentage score is tallied throughout the...
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Using Commas With Coordinating Conjunctions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
An exercise with ten compound sentences. Students are asked to type the commas where they belongs in compound sentences with a coordinating conjunctions. Then students can check their answers to see how they did.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Writer's Choice: Grade 6: Connecting Writing With Grammar

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
"Connecting Writing with Grammar" offers links to six exercises in English usage and sentence structure.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this lesson, students will explore compound sentences and coordinating conjunctions. They will also combine simple sentences into compound sentence.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Sentence Conventions

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The student will expand or reduces sentences (e.g., adding or deleting modifiers, combining or revising sentences).
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Joining Telling Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides practice for combining telling sentences.
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English Zone

English Zone: Formal Adjective Clauses Exercise 30

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A ten-question exercise with each question consisting of a pair of clauses. Students are asked to combine the two clauses into one complete sentence by using the second clause to create an adjective clause. Students can check their...
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English Zone

English zone.com: Noun Clauses: Embedded Questions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Technology Studies in Education: Using Cause/effect Transitions: Exercise 1 A

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Three sets of sentences that students can combine by using transitions that show the cause and effect relationship between the sentences. Feedback about correct and incorrect combinations is provided after each set.
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Quia

Quia: Math Rounding Fractions

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
An interactive exercise where students read two sentences and then choose the conjunction that would best join them together. Correct answers are provided for any missed, and score is kept throughout the exercise.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Combining Sentences

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains opportunities to combine sentences focusing on subjects and predicates.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Connecting Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Notes defining dependent and independent clauses, followed by an eleven-slide PowerPoint presentation defining and giving examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences. More notes explain subordinating conjunctions, conjunctive...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Compound Sentences

For Teachers 2nd - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines compound sentences and discusses conjunctions and punctuation to combine the sentences. It provides many examples utilizing color-coding to help define each of the sentence parts.

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