Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Sentence Structure
This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Sentence Structures, Rhetorical Devices, & Transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] The most effective expository and procedural texts contain rhetorical devices, transitional words and phrases, and a variety of sentence structures. Students will learn some...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Expository Writing Sentence Variety/rhetorical Devices/transitions
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn how to write an expository/procedural text that uses a variety of sentence structures, rhetorical devices, and transitions.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Sentence Structure
Tips on how to vary sentence structure to strengthen writing.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Sentence Structure
This lesson focuses on sentence structure including the parts of a sentence, types of sentences, sentence patterns, run-on sentences, fragments, phrases and clauses, and much more. It also includes a video, practices, and a self-check.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Try It: Sentence Structure
This is a non-graded sentence structure practice in which students are asked to copy a blank paragraph with punctuation provided then write sentences to fit the punctuation.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Sentence Structure
This page offers a list of links to entries about sentence structure including elements of sentence construction, sentence types and punctuation, connectors, sentence patterns, pattern transformations, and active/passive voice.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction, Conclusion, and Sentence Variety
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on writing effective introductions and conclusions and tying them together. It also discusses varying sentence structures. Practice exercises are...
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Untangle Grammatical Structures
This page explains the need to revise sentences with unclear or mixed constructions and provides examples.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
Towson University
Towson University: Parallel Sentence Structure (W/ Correlative Conj) Exercise 4
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting Parallel Sentence Structure using Correlative Conjunctions.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Parallel Sentence Structure Exercise 3
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on correcting Parallel Sentence Structure.
Other
Instruct Uwo: Module 6 Sentence Structure and Style
This site discusses several characteristics of writing: coordination, subordination, parallelism, and sentence variety. Each section includes a brief discussion with examples. There are also quizzes and additional links for each section.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Parallel Sentence Structure Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on Parallel Sentence Structure.
Grammar Check
Grammar Check: 20 Writing Mistakes Even Native Speakers Make (Infographic)
This GrammarCheck infographic provides tips for fixing common writing mistakes. Information on errors related to homophones, apostrophes, commas, participles, and sentence structure are included.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Effective Intro & Conclusion & Variety of Sentence Structures
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the introduction which establishes the context for the information that will form the body of the essay, connecting the conclusion to the introduction,...
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.
Other
Newswriting for Radio: Broadcast Sentence Structure
A fabulous Newscript.com site for broadcast news writing. You can learn how to craft the perfect sentence for radio listeners.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Teenage Brain: Analyze Sentence Structure
Analyze the structure of a sentence from "Concussions Affect Teens More Than Kids and Adults, Study Says" to understand how the sentence is constructed and then create our own sentences that use a similar structure.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Diagramming Sentences Power Point
This handy PowerPoint presentation introduces the concept of sentence diagramming. It includes a number of examples.
Other
Pressbooks: Virginia Western Community College: Let's Get Writing!
This is an open textbook created to assist students in their writing efforts. Topics covered include critical reading, rhetorical analysis, writing arguments, steps in the writing process, rhetorical modes, using credible sources, citing...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Center for Writing Studies: Grammar Handbook
Use this handbook to review specific grammar or usage areas, including parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentence structure, and common usage problems. L.9-10.1 Grammar/Usage, L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Effective Introduction and Conclusion Sentence Structure Variety
Write effective introductions and conclusions with a controlling idea or thesis, using a variety of sentence patterns.