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Compound Sentences
Do your pupils need a little variety in their writing? Help them build compound and complex sentences with sentence frames. They first combine two independent clauses to form a compound sentence, then add a third clause to make a complex...
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Clauses and Compound Sentences
Sentence variety is extremely important when it comes to learning the written word. Add variety to your learners' writing by focusing on clauses and compound sentences. The information provided is followed by a practice opportunity to...
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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...
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Review of Compound and Complex Sentences
An excellent language arts learning exercise. Learners read seven sentences and determine if each is simple, compound, or complex. In order to practice sentence combining, young writers join 10 sets of sentences to form compound...
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Creating Simple and Compound Sentences
In this creating simple and compound sentences online activity, student read ten sentences, indicating simple, compound or run-on; each run-on sentence must be re-written as one compound or two simple sentences.
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Simple and compound sentences
In this simple and compound sentences worksheet, students decide whether sentences are simple or compound sentences. Students also identify homophones, and plurals in sentences.
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The Complex Sentence
Develop the writing skills of your middle and high schoolers with this worksheet on complex, compound, and simple sentences. This resource assumes your learners are familiar with simple and compound sentences, so only the complex...
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Sentences
Work on sentence variety with this grammar learning exercise. Middle schoolers decide if what they are reading are sentences, phrases, complete sentences, simple sentences, compound sentences, or complex sentences. They then complete...
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Compound and Complex Sentences
Does your class need to work on compound and complex sentences? Consider this worksheet! This fine worksheet has learners use connecting words to join 8 sentences, so that simple sentences become compound and complex sentences. They also...
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Sentence Combining
Avoid short, choppy sentences in your class's writing by focusing on sentence structures. The first page in this two-page packet shows your class how to combine sentences using conjunctions, a list, an appositive, or compound predicate....
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Simple, Compound, or Complex?
Check your class's understanding of compound, simple, and complex sentences with a quick and straightforward exercise. Pupils read ten sentences and choose whether each one is a simple, complex, or compound sentence by checking one of...
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Recognizing Types of Sentences
Use this types of sentences worksheet in your grammar lesson. Young writers read eight sentences and determine if each is simple, complex or compound. They write the answer on the line. There are no examples of these types of sentences.
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Guide young grammarians through common sentence structures with a helpful slideshow presentation. Focusing on coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, the presentation helps individuals to see the elements that make up...
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Kinds of Sentences
Boost understanding of the four types of sentences with several exercises. To start off, read through the provided information about the types of sentences together. This will prepare your class to practice their new knowledge. Then,...
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Interactive Sentence Quiz
In this interactive sentences worksheet, learners read 15 sentences about euthanasia then complete an interactive quiz where they determine the type of sentence or phrase used. Choices include, phrase, incomplete sentence, simple...
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...
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Sentence Combining
Work on combining sentences with this grammar practice instructional activity. Middle schoolers rewrite six simple sentences to make compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.
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What Is in a Sentence, Paragraph, and Story?
Language arts is made up of many parts. Learners review the parts of a sentence, as well as how to make a simple sentence into a complex sentence, before examining full paragraphs and identifying the topic, body, and concluding sentence...
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Connectives
Using connectives and conjunctions is an easy way to vary sentence structure. Third graders review the given connectives, then use them to combine two simple sentences. The second section allows learners to use more words and phrases as...
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Recognizing Types of Sentences
Examine eleven sentences and identify them as simple sentences, compound sentences, or complex sentences in this grammar learning exercise. Use the activity as a quiz, review lesson, or homework assignment.
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Making compound sentences
In this combining sentences worksheet, students combine 2 sentences into 1 sentence. Students combine 12 sentences into 6 sentences.
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Sentence Structure: Hellen Keller Biography
Readers identify sentence structure -- simple, compound, complex, compound-complex -- in 10 examples based on Helen Keller's life story.
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Sentence Structure: Sentence Types
Sixth graders identify parts that make up different types of sentences with a grammar presentation. The last few slides prompt learners to complete 10 exercises in which they indicate whether each sentence is simple, compound,...
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Recognizing Types of Sentences
In this recognizing types of sentences worksheet, students read sentences and determine whether they are simple, compound, or complex. Students write eleven answers.