An exercise where students read ten sets of three sentences and chooses which sentence in each set is a complete sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any that were missed.

This entry focuses on forming complete sentences by identifying fragments, comma splices, and fused sentences and learning how to correct them. It provides the rules, examples of errors, and examples of how to correct each type of error.

This site offers links to each section of Writing, Module 8, Lessons 1-9 and Practices 1-3. Students write legibly and use appropriate capitalization and punctuation conventions in their compositions; spell correctly; and edit drafts for...

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.

In this activity, Roni Schotter's picture book entitled The Boy Who Loved Words is used as the mentor text. This Language Arts Common Core Standards-aligned activity pre-writing task engages students in writing a collection of ideas of...

This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...

Here's a site from the Capital Community College to show the correct and incorrect way to use or not use commas.

An exercise with ten run-on sentences where students are asked to choose which re-written sentence is correct. A percentage score is given at the end of the exercise.

Very clear, detailed explanation of the appropriate use of colons in sentences. You will find several examples of both correct and incorrect usage, and a short quiz to test understanding. L.9-10.2b Colons

This entry focuses on the rules for comma use including listing the uses, explaining the rules, and providing detailed examples.

Explanations and examples of comma splices, fused sentences, and run-on sentences along with strategies for correcting these sentence errors.

The Common Core Standard L.1.1.c states that the students will use singular and plural nouns in sentences with matching verbs. Students will do this in writing and speaking. This instructional activity allows students to write and tell...

Learn to use and punctuate double and single quotations correctly within a sentence.