After defining and offering cogent examples of fragments and complex sentences, this worksheet presents pupils with two passages. One they must revise. For the second, an excerpt from an E.B. White essay, they must identify the fragments...

Such a creative game idea, this activity might actually make grammar fun! Learners play a modified game of connect-four by identifying the grammatical name for different words and phrases and then working them into simple sentences to...

Find out just how much your pupils know about simple sentences, subjects and predicates, sentence fragments, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, compound sentences, complex sentences, and more! This review page includes...

Support scholars' ability to write complex sentences with a two-page instructional activity designed to inform and reinforce. Here, learners obtain a brief overview of what a complex sentence is and how one is made; then apply their...

Do your pupils need a little variety in their writing? Help them build compound and complex sentences with sentence frames. They first combine two independent clauses to form a compound sentence, then add a third clause to make a complex...

After reading a series of definitions and studying examples, partners craft five of their own compound-complex sentences.

Develop the writing skills of your middle and high schoolers with this learning exercise on complex, compound, and simple sentences. This resource assumes your learners are familiar with simple and compound sentences, so only the complex...

Language arts is made up of many parts. Learners review the parts of a sentence, as well as how to make a simple sentence into a complex sentence, before examining full paragraphs and identifying the topic, body, and concluding sentence...

What kind of sentence is it? This can be a complex subject, so don't compound the difficulty by skipping over the topic! It's simple, just have your class read and go over the information here and then complete the included exercise.

Practice using clauses and phrases with this worksheet. Middle schoolers connect the words using horizontal and vertical lines to form sentences. Use this worksheet as a fun class activity or as a homework assignment.

If grammar practice is anywhere in your curriculum, you must check out an extensive collection of warm-up activities for language arts! Each page focuses on a different concept, from parts of speech to verbals, and provides review...

Trying to help your learners improve their writing? Experiment with complex sentences with this handout and short exercise. This handout presents definitions of different types of clauses, a table explaining subordinating conjunctions,...

Covering vocabulary, literary analysis, and grammar, this worksheet would be a great study guide or homework assignment for an eighth-grade Language Arts class. Though the five stories by Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, and Oscar Wilde are...

Compound and complex sentences are the focus of this language arts worksheet. Learners write a clause or phrase from each of the four sentences, then rewrite each sentence adding another clause to make a compound or complex sentence.

Avoid short, choppy sentences in your class's writing by focusing on sentence structures. The first page in this two-page packet shows your class how to combine sentences using conjunctions, a list, an appositive, or compound predicate....

Nine lessons makeup a unit designed to reinforce grammar and vocabulary through practice pages based on readings of African folktales. Each lesson consists of a mini lesson, a vocabulary review, and a instructional activity. Topics...

In this complex sentences worksheet, students write 10 original complex sentences, underlining subjects and circling predicates.

If you'd like your class to write in varied sentence patterns, use a instructional activity focused on adverb clauses to enhance their writing. After reading a short explanation and example of adverb clauses, young grammarians underline...

Turn your emergent authors into sentence combining pros. They combine two short sentences to create one complex sentence. There are 5 sets of sentences to combine. Note: This learning exercise has a pirate theme and would be perfect for...

In this writing learning exercise, students examine how to embed portions of sentences into others to form complex sentences. They match and embed the adjectives, clauses, and phrases into the given sentences to form new ones.

Although this practice opportunity is poorly organized, it does provide a chance for your upper elementary schoolers to identify complete sentences, run-on sentences, and sentence fragments. This worksheet also focuses on ways to correct...

Sentence variety is extremely important when it comes to learning the written word. Add variety to your learners' writing by focusing on clauses and compound sentences. The information provided is followed by a practice opportunity to...

In this grammar worksheet, young scholars learn to combine sentences with subordinating conjunctions and adverb clauses. Students complete 12 questions. Note: This page refers young scholars to a list on a page that is not included here.

In this sentence clauses worksheet, sixth and seventh graders read ten sentences and write down whether the sentence is: simple, compound, complex or compound-complex.