E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Senternce Structure Worksheets
In this learning module, students will learn more about various sentence structures. Reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed to support Tier I, Tier II, and Tier III students via different instructional options.
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Sentence Structure Activities
In this sentence structures learning module, students will learn more about clauses and phrases via a hands-on approach. PowerPoint lessons, downloadable content, games, and reinforcement worksheets are provided. This module is designed...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces compound-complex sentences and how they are constructed. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Compound-Complex Sentences."
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 10.1: Parts of the Sentence
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explanations and examples to demonstrate how to identify independent and dependent clauses, prepositions and prepositional phrases, participle phrases and gerund...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complex Sentences
Nine slides introducing complex sentences, dependent clauses, and independent clauses and explaining how to identify and create them.
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Fragments and Run Ons
What are sentence fragments and run-on sentences? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Provides techniques for avoiding fragments and run-ons in writing assignments.
University of North Carolina
Univ. Of North Carolina: Seeing and Correcting Sentence Fragments and Run Ons
What is a sentence fragment and a run-on sentence? Explore this informative resource to review the meaning and some examples of these. Students and teachers can utilize this informative site to improve their writing skills.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Clauses
This online grammar guide provides a definition of clauses and how they function in sentences.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Punctuation Patterns
An interactive tutorial that describes and defines basic punctuation patterns in the English language. Includes punctuation of phrase, clauses, and complete sentences.
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Practice Distinguishing Clauses
This section of an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides a review of and an interactive exercise on identifying how clauses function in sentences (as nouns, adjectives, or adverbs).
University of Calgary
University of Calgary: Main & Subordinate Clauses
This page from an online grammar guide from the University of Calgary provides definitions and examples of main and subordinate (independent and dependent) clauses. It also provides an interactive exercise on identifying these types of...
Rutgers University
Rutgers Univ.: Guide to Grammar and Style: Dependent Versus Independent Clauses
This site has a section from an online source called the Guide to Grammar and Style which provides an explanation of the difference between dependent and independent clauses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Introduction to Phrases and Clauses
Learn to spot the differences between phrases and clauses.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Recognizing Fragments
A fragment is a part of a sentence, but can't be a sentence on its own.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Dependent and Independent Clauses
Independent clauses can be sentences. Dependent clauses can't! Let's take a deeper dive into what that looks like in this exercise.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Phrase and Clause Placement
Choose the best placement for the phrase or clause in the sentences provided!
English Plus+
Subordinate Clause
Definition of subordinate (dependent) clause. Links to complete glossary.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: The Subjects
Defines and explains how to find the subject of a sentence. Gives several examples of subjects in different types of sentences.
English Plus+
English Plus: Subordinating Conjunction
A simple explanation of subordinating conjunctions with examples. The page includes a list of common subordinating conjunctions.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: If Clause Quiz
This exercise, intended for nonnative English speakers (ESL), provides practice constructing sentences with dependent and independent clauses. Offers solutions without detailed explanation.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Exercise 1: Finding Fragments in Short Passages
Twenty short passages each containing one sentence fragment which students are asked to choose. Feedback for each answer is given along with the option of reading an explanation of why the answer is correct or incorrect. Passages and a...
Other
D'youville College: Clauses
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.
Other
Western Grammar: Module 2: Advanced Sentence Structure
Online grammar textbook explaining sentence structure provides definitions of different types of subordinate clauses and exercises related to this topic. There is also information on phrases and other components of sentences.
Other
Legal Writing: Dependent Clauses & Phrases
This writing guide for law students provides information on distinguishing phrases and independent and dependent clauses.