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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Writing Counterarguments Based on Evidence (English I Writing)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay including counter-arguments that anticipate objections.
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Writing Skills: Logic in Paragraphs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity focuses on logic in paragraphs including logic, structure, rank order, and organization.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Toefl Practice Site: Coherence and Unity

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses coherence achieved through major and minor connector transitions. Examples are given, and there is a link to an exercise meant for the particular class this site was designed for, still useful practice for anyone....
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Main and Subordinate Clauses

For Students 7th - 9th Standards
In this lesson, we are going to learn how to use and understand main clauses and subordinate clauses to improve your writing.
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University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin: Using Transitions: Transitional Words and Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tables of words that show different types of sentence transitions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/transitions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4, W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion....
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University of Calgary

University of Calgary: Parts of Speech Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Nice website that offers an explanation of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions, along with examples of usage and an interactive quiz.
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Other

Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Coordinating Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a good explanation of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions. Provides several charts identifying various conjunctions and their meanings.
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The Tongue Untied

Tongue Untied Correlative Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Maintained by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications, this site offers numerous examples of the rules of correlative conjunction usage. Also has hyperlinks to sections on subordinating conjunctions, coordinating...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Subordination and Coordination Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This article focuses on subordination and coordination including, process of linking clauses with punctuation and conjunctions, types of conjunctions, dependent and independent clauses.
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English Plus+

Grammar Slammer Glossary: Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site offers a basic definition of conjunctions, with hypertext links to related terms (phrases, clauses, subordinate clauses, and main clauses). Addresses coordinate, correlative, and subordinate conjunctions.
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University College London

University College London: Subject and Predicate

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Survey of English Usage provides explanations and examples for the subject and the predicate.
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Other

D'youville College: Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This online writing lab provides a series of examples on identifying clauses, both independent and dependent. A section is also included on putting clauses together with examples.
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Other

Legal Writing: Dependent Clauses & Phrases

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This writing guide for law students provides information on distinguishing phrases and independent and dependent clauses.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words: Lesson 1

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over emphatic transition words and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Emphatic Transition Words."
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TES Global

Blendspace: Fanboys and Aaawwubbis (Compound and Complex)

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos and images on coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and their role in creating compound and complex sentences.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Dependent and Independent Clauses Review

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a series of assessment items in which students determine whether the phrases are dependent or independent clauses.
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The Write Place

Literacy Education Online: Cohesion: Using Repetition and Reference Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site gives a brief overview of how to achieve cohesion or coherence in writing. It explains how the repeating of key words and using reference words help tie ideas together. Use link in first paragraph to find charts of transitional...
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Identifying Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is set up like a quiz with ten questions involving various groups of words that must be identified as either a phrase or a clause.
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University College London

University College London: Clauses and Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This section of an online English-grammar book introduces and provides examples of different types of clauses. Because this is from a British source, it uses different terms to identify the types of clauses, calling an independent...
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Other

Tidewater Community College: Writing Center: Transitions and Connectors

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site provides a list of conjunctions, separated into categories such as "Addition," "Alternatives," and "Cause and Effect," plus more.
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University of Calgary

The Basic Elements of English: Clause Identification

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page from an online grammar guide provided by the University of Calgary gives a definition and example of a clause.