PBS
Career Connections | Advertising Director
Being an advertising director requires more than the ability to craft ads for products and services. The president of an advertising, design, and marketing agency details what he believes are the skills essential to becoming an...
Jen Johnson
Independent Clauses, Dependent Clauses, & Fragments
When is a clause a complete sentence, and when do you need to add a subordinate conjunction? Practice complex sentences and avoid fragments with a grammar video. With fun pictures and interesting graphics, the video will get through to...
Yossarian the Grammarian
Parsing a Sentence: English Grammar Lesson
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to analyze the different words' functions within a complex sentence.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simple and Compound Sentences
What is the difference between a simple and compound sentence? Allow David and Paige from Khan Academy explain it to you in this video tutorial. Included are questions and answers from the community. [4:26]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Complex Sentences
Learn how to spot a complex sentence from this Khan Academy video. Many examples are given by Paige and Rosie to help you understand these sentences. Included are questions and answers from the community. [5:06]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complex Sentences
This video lesson focuses on complex sentences including defining them, identifying them, and providing examples including how to punctuate them. Real Player is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences
This video lesson focuses on defining, recognizing, and writing compound-complex sentences. It includes tips for identifying dependent clauses, and how to form and punctuate compound-complex sentences. Real Player is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Sentences
This video lesson focuses on compound sentences including what they are, how they are formed, using coordinating conjunctions, using conjunctive adverbs, and how to punctuate compound sentences. She also discusses avoiding comma splices....
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simply Simple Sentences
This tutorial focuses on the simple sentence: one thought, one clause. It gives examples of simple declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences. Real Player is required.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Effective Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on the purposes of topic sentences and how to write effective ones. It provides 2 videos: the first reviews the two purposes of a topic sentence, and the second shows how to write an effective topic sentence. Real...
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Compound Subject and Compound Predicate
This TurtleDiary interactive video lesson [2:44] features information about compound subjects and compound predicates. Practice exercises are included to supplement the lesson about compound subjects and compound predicates.
Leaf Group
Classroom: How to Write a Paragraph
In this video Laura Turner explains how to write a paragraph; like a mini essay it requires a single subject and include an introduction sentence, a body, and a closing sentence. [1:08]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences
A video presentation that explains what constitutes a compound-complex sentence and provides examples [7:47]
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Subordinating Conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions join two parts of complex sentences--independent clauses to dependent clauses. David explains how.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Complex Sentences
Complex sentences are simple sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them. Paige and Rosie explain how to spot them and use them in this video.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Compound Complex Sentences
Compound-complex sentences are compound sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them. Paige and Rosie explain how to spot and use them.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Simple and Compound Sentences
A simple sentence contains one independent clause. A compound sentence contains more than one! Put another way: a simple sentence contains a subject and a predicate, but a compound sentence contains more than one subject and more than...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 2
A slideshow introducing simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex sentence types. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Coordinating Conjunctions
This lesson introduces coordinating conjunctions and explaining their use and punctuation within compound sentences. [1:18]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Sentence Variety
This lesson introduces the element of sentence variety in composition. [4:36]