Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences
This slideshow lesson focuses on compound complex sentences. It explains what they are including the requirements, how they are put together, how to punctuate them, and provides examples showing the various sentence structures.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complex Sentences
This slideshow lesson focuses on complex sentences; it explains what makes up a complex sentence: independent clause, dependent clause, and a subordinate conjunction. It discusses placement, order, and how to punctuate them accordingly.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 1
This slideshow lesson defines and provides examples for each of the types of sentences: simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 3
A slideshow introducing simple, complex, compound, and compound-complex sentence types. It is 3 of 3 in the series titled "Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences."
TES Global
Blendspace: Compound/complex Sentence Review
An eleven-part learning module with links to images and videos to use while reviewing compound and complex sentences.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Kinds of Sentences and Their Punctuation
This entry focuses on the kinds of sentences and how they are punctuation including simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Sentences: Compound, Complex, Compound Complex
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Use a variety of sentence structures including compound, complex, and compound-complex.
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Quiz: Compound and Complex Sentences
This resource offers a short, five-question quiz on compound and complex sentences. It gives information, explanations, and the correct answers.
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: Sentence Structure Challenge Trivia Quiz
A ten-question exercise where students read each sentence and decide if it is a simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any questions missed.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complex Sentences
Nine slides introducing complex sentences, dependent clauses, and independent clauses and explaining how to identify and create them.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
A learning module that teaches students about varying sentence structure in six mini-lessons: Introduction; What Is a Sentence?; Simple Sentences; Readability: How Foggy Is Your Writing?; Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex, and The Art...
TES Global
Blendspace: Grammar Pre Learner Week 2 Complex Sentences
A learning module that includes links to videos, images, charts, and activities on complex sentences.
Quia
Quia: Sentence Structure Practice Game
An interactive game focused on sentence structure. Students answer fifteen increasingly difficult questions about simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in order to win the game. Three hints are available, but if a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Varied Sentence Types
While they aren't wrong, overusing simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! [0:44]
Quia
Quia: Sentence Structure
A twenty-four-question, interactive quiz asking students to answer questions about and to identify simple, compound, and complex sentences. When finished, students can submit answers to see the correct answers as well as their percentage...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Sentence Structure Review
A good site that gives a list of sentences with explanations. Students must choose whether each sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
Students structure sentences using literary techniques to use a variety of literary techniques including simple, compound, and complex sentence structure.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Sentence Types
Lessons and materials to teach simple, compound, and complex sentences to middle school students.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Use a Variety of Correctly Structured Sentences
Learn to avoid fragments and run-on sentences while correctly combining clauses to create an effective variety of sentences, including complex, compound, and compound-complex.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Structure
A six-part learning module including links to information, exercises, and learning games on dependent and independent clauses as well as simple, compound, and complex sentences.
TES Global
Blendspace: Sentence Varying
A seven-part learning module with links to texts and videos about simple, compound, and complex sentences and varying them in their writing.
TES Global
Blendspace: Fanboys and Aaawwubbis (Compound and Complex)
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.
TES Global
Blendspace: Types of Sentences
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, and websites to use while learning about clauses and simple, compound, and complex sentences.