Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Subject
Part of larger website devoted to sentence structure, grammar, and writing skills, this tutorial teaches the subject of a sentence--the person, place, thing, or idea that is doing or being something.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Parts of Speech to Write Descriptive Sentences
Students can easily grasp the the parts of a sentence with this lesson plan.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Openers
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,...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Principles of Composition
If you are a teacher OR a student looking for a well-informed website on elements of the writing process, you are in luck! This site from the Capital Community College is very comprehensive and easy-to-navigate. From grammar basics to...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Racetrack Sentences
In this lesson plan, The Berenstain Bears and the Big Road Race, written by Stan Berenstain, is used as a mentor text. Learners will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Parts Quiz
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.
ACT360 Media
Writing Den: Parts of a Sentence
Explore the world of "Parts of a Sentence." Find out about adjectives, nouns, prepositions and more. This site features an overview of each part of speech.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Airplane Flight Sentences
In this lesson, Robert Burleigh's picture book entitled Flight is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will also use...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Creepy Crawly Sentences
In this lesson, the picture book entitled Toad, written by Ruth Brown, is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite adjectives from the mentor text, rank them according to their favorite, and share them. Students will...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Show What Your Mind Sees
This writing activity asks writers to make use of both showing and telling as they create a well-organized paragraph of description. After reviewing showing versus telling by building a writer's notebook page, each writer will show what...
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. Learners will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Predicates, Objects, Complements
This is a glossary covering predicates, objects, and complements. The information on predicates includes a simple predicate, compound predicate, complete predicate, predicate adjective, and predicate nominative.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjectives: Adjective Order Game: Famous Place
Ten adjective order games with sentences about famous places. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjectives: Adjective Order Game: Famous Men
Ten adjective order games with sentences about famous men. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjectives: Adjective Order Game: Famous Women
Ten word order games with sentences about famous women. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjective Order Game: Strange Creatures
Ten word order games with sentences about magical and mythical creatures. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjective Order Game: Weird Animals
Ten word order games with sentences about odd animals from around the world. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjective Order Game: Famous Festivals
Ten word order games with sentences about festivals celebrates around the world. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjective Order Game: Strange People
Ten word order games with sentences about odd people from different places around the world. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
English Club
English Club: Esl Games: Grammar: Adjective Order Game: Great Films
Ten word order games with sentences about popular movies. Drag the words into the correct order to form complete sentences. Hints are available if needed and work can be checked when completed.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Adjectives
A clear, concise explanation of adjectives, including some tricky usages, how to order adjectives in a sentence, and some idiomatic uses of prepositions with -ed participles. The emphasis is on HOW adjectives are used more than on WHY...
English Zone
English Zone: Formal Adjective Clauses Exercise 30
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...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Sass: Sentence Structure [Pdf]
This online writing guide defines independent and dependent clauses and explains how dependent clauses are used in sentences. With examples. [PDF]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Variety: Sentence Structure
This slideshow lesson discusses how to use variation in sentence structure to produce more effective writing.