Curated Video
Despite Justice Reform, Number Of Inmates Serving Life Still Rising
About 203,000 Americans are currently set to die behind bars. In 1970, there were less than 200,000 people in America's entire prison system.
Scratch Garden
The Sentence Song ♫♪♫ | Scratch Garden
A laid back beat and silly animation makes a music video about sentence structure a hit among young learners. Find out what a capital letter is and when we use them, as well as end punctuation; the period, exclamation point, and question...
Curated OER
Sentence Improvement
Improve your sentences after watching this video. It explains the differences between 2A and DD sentences by showing different examples.
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.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Grammar: Two Ways to Construe "Brian Boitano Is Skating"
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to interpret a sentence that uses present progressive verb tense and ambiguous wording.
Yossarian the Grammarian
English Composition Manifesto: Normal Prose
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains the different types of sentences in prose. [8:59]
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Capitalization: Sentences, Quotations, Proper Nouns, & Names
This TurtleDiary interactive video lesson [4:28] features information about capitalization. Rules on capitalizing sentences, direct quotations, proper nouns, and family names are included. Practice exercises are provided to supplement...
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is a Sentence?
A video [4:33] explaining that a sentences is a grammatically correct idea with a subject and a verb.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Run Ons and Comma Splices
A video [4:37] explaining the common sentence errors of run-ons and comma splices. L.11-12.3a Syntax
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Rambling Sentences
This lesson [4:18] goes over how to recognize and correct sentences that are overly long. This tutorial lesson shares a short screencast with the lesson's content.
Yossarian the Grammarian
Comma Splices, Independent Clauses, and Subordinate Clauses
This video lesson from Yossarian the Grammarian explains how to avoid comma splices when working with independent and subordinate clauses. [6:42]
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Activity: Sentence Fluency: Word Girl
In this WordGirl lesson, build on words students already know to help them learn and apply new vocabulary and create different kinds of sentences.
Other
Turtle Diary: Coordinating Conjunctions
A superb lesson designed for children to teach them about coordinating conjunctions. The lesson describes coordinating and subordinating conjunctions with the help of a lot of examples.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: What Is a Sentence?
A sentence is a grammatically complete idea. All sentences have a noun or pronoun component called the subject, and a verb part called the predicate. David and Paige explore this division across several different example sentences.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Three Types of Sentence
Three essential types of sentence are declarative sentences (which are statements), interrogative sentences (which are questions), and imperative sentences (which are orders). Join us as we give examples of each!
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Writing: Within Sentence Punctuation Basic Example
In this video [1:33] watch Sal work through a basic within-sentence punctuation question from the SAT Writing and Language Test.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Run Ons and Comma Splices
A run-on sentence doesn't separate any of its independent clauses with the punctuation that it needs, and a comma splice incorrectly separates two independent clauses with a comma, instead of a comma-and-coordinating-conjunction.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Expressing Math in Words: Lesson 4
Students are shown how to translate math from numbers and symbols to words. This lesson is 4 of 8 in the series titled "Expressing Math in Words."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Expressing Math in Words
Students are shown how to translate math from numbers and symbols to words.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Correcting Run on Sentences and Comma Splices: Lesson 2
This lesson goes over how to correct a run-on sentence or a comma splice. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Correcting Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Correcting Run on Sentences and Comma Splices: Lesson 1
This lesson goes over how to correct a run-on sentence or a comma splice. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Correcting Run-on Sentences and Comma Splices."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Correcting Sentence Fragments
This video lesson goes over how to identify and correct sentence fragments. [5:15]
