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English Grammar Revolution: Types of Sentences
This site offers a brief tutorial on the four types of sentences, then two exercises of 10 sentences each, for student practice or assessment. Answers are also available.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complex Sentences
Nine slides introducing complex sentences, dependent clauses, and independent clauses and explaining how to identify and create them.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Varying
A seven-part learning module with links to texts and videos about simple, compound, and complex sentences and varying them in their writing.
University College London
The Internet Grammar of English: Sentences
This site from the Internet Grammar of English of the University College of London provides a general overview of sentence structure. Content includes an online exercise, and is worth checking out on the subject.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Sentence Meaning: Silly Sentence Mix Up
A lesson plan in which students use sentence strips with various phrases to create sentences. Materials are included.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences
In this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences
In this lesson, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them....
Quia
Quia: Simple and Compound Sentences
Do you know the difference between simple and compound sentences? Find out what you know about by taking this practice quiz.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Simple and Compound Sentences
This lesson introduces students to simple and compound sentences and gives them a chance to try identifying them for themselves.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
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.
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."
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo: One Word Sentences and How They Work
Emma Bryce explains how one-word sentences illustrate some lexical ambiguities that can turn ordinary words and sentences into mazes that mess with our minds. [3:28]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Sentences
This lesson introduces compound sentences and how they are constructed.
TES Global
Blendspace: Compound Sentences
A learning module that includes links to videos, and activities on compound sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple Sentences: Lesson 4
This lesson discusses simple sentences, explains their requirements, provides examples, and offers a quiz to show understanding.
TES Global
Blendspace: Compound/complex Sentence Review
An eleven-part learning module with links to images and videos to use while reviewing compound and complex sentences.
TES Global
Blendspace: Compound Sentences & Fanboys
A five-part learning module with links to an image, videos, and texts about compound sentences and the coordinating conjunctions used to form them.
TES Global
Blendspace: Grammar Pre Learner Week 2 Complex Sentences
A learning module that includes links to videos, images, charts, and activities on complex sentences.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Comma vs. Semicolon: Compound Sentences
A handout with forty sentences for practicing comma and semicolon usage in compound sentences; answer key provided.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Joining Telling Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides practice for combining telling sentences.
Quia
Quia: Sentence Types
An interactive exercise where students read sixteen sentences and decide if each sentence is declarative, interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. Correct answers are provided for any missed, and a score summary is displayed when...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Word Order: Creating Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students move words from the bottom of the page to create sentences.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Complete Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students can interact with the board while learning about complete sentences. They can use the Activotes for the answers if the teacher chooses.