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Sentence Patterns I: Locating Subjects and Verbs

For Students 7th - 9th
Tighten up your class's grammar with this straightforward instructional activity on sentence patterns. After a short review about sentence patterns, clauses, and subjects and verbs, ten questions prompt young writers to identify the...
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Subordinate Clauses

For Students 9th - 10th
For this grammar worksheet, students read about subordinate clauses. Students read about adjective clauses and adverb clauses.
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K20 LEARN

Say It with Style: Syntax and Parallel Structure

For Teachers 9th Standards
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech provides the text for a lesson that introduces scholars to the significance of syntax. After examining several types of clauses, phrases, and structures, class members use the...
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Pronouns and Clauses

For Students 4th - 5th
In this pronouns and clauses worksheet, students complete a passage using 7 appropriate pronouns, write how many clauses there are in 4 sentences, underline the main clause in each one and write a short story with a beginning, a middle...
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Sentence (Structure) Recognition Practice

For Teachers 6th - 7th
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.
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Curated OER

The Compound-Complex Sentence

For Students 7th - 9th
After reading a series of definitions and studying examples, partners craft five of their own compound-complex sentences.
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Kinds of Sentences

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Help your students mix up their writing with different kinds of sentences with this PowerPoint. Each slide gives a brief definition of the various types including: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and more! There are also examples...
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Wake County Public Schools

Language

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Have your class doing everything from reading literature, analyzing literary devices, identifying independent and dependent clauses, discussing, and writing creatively with the rich resource found here. After a mini lesson on independent...
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Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences in Your Writing

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Encourage your young writers to make their writing more interesting by varying their sentence structures. Each color-coded slide offers definitions and models of sentence forms. The final slide in the presentation presents viewers with...
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Clauses and Conjunctions

For Students 9th - 10th
In this grammar worksheet, students read about clauses and conjunctions. Students read about the different kinds of clauses, such as dependent and independent.
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ClearVue

Perfect Punctuation

For Students 5th - 8th
Using the provided "[Punctuation] Rules to Remember" young grammarians punctuate clauses, phrases, participles, and quotations in a series of worksheets.
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Commas vs Semicolons

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Middle schoolers arrange sentences to create correct punctuation use with commas and semicolons. Using FANBOYS, they define and recognize subordinate (dependent) vs. independent clauses, and other necessary parts of a sentence. They...
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University of North Carolina

Sentence Patterns

For Students 9th - Higher Ed Standards
In an ideal world, sentences in a college-level essay should feature a variety of sentence types. In reality, most papers stick to simple and compound sentences, two of the types a handout on sentence patterns discusses. Part of a larger...
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Transition Words for Better Writing

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Improve learners' writing, comprehension, and analytical thinking by teaching the use of transition words.
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Virginina Department of Education

Combining Ideas into an Effective Sentence

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Here is a lesson that is best utilized as reinforcement in identifying sentences that combine independent/dependent clauses, and phrases that are awkward, fragmented or complete. Learners use the red, yellow, and green light method of...
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Adjective Clause and Comma Practice

For Students Higher Ed
In this adjective clause and comma worksheet, students review the basic rules of adjective clauses and comma usage. They apply the rules as they underline the adjective clauses, circle the nouns that the clauses describe, and add commas...
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Pronoun Relative

For Students 5th - 6th
A fabulous description of what pronouns are and how they are used is the focus of this language arts worksheet. Students review usage facts and demonstrate proper usage. They answer 16 questions, and the answers appear at the end of the...
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Grammar: Adjective Clauses

For Teachers 12th
Twelfth graders practice using subject and object pronouns in adjective clauses.
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Clauses: The Trilogy

For Students 7th - 9th
In this clauses review worksheet set, students go over the proper use of the trilogy of clauses. They review noun clauses, adverb clauses, and adjective clauses by reading their definitions and examples of their usage. There are no...
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Punctuation (The Comma vs. The Semicolon)

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Explore English by participating in a grammar correcting activity. Elementary and middle schoolers distinguish when to use commas from when to use semicolons. Then they correct twelve sentences by placing commas and semicolons in the...
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EngageNY

Understanding Douglass’s Words: Learning to Read

For Teachers 7th Standards
How is a sentence like the human body? Scholars think about the comparison as they view an image of the human anatomy and begin to complete an Anatomy of a Sentence anchor chart. They review roots, prefixes, and suffixes and then begin...
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Misplaced and Dangling Participles

For Students 6th - 8th
Help! I’ve misplaced my modifier! Misplaced modifiers and dangling participles are the subject of a worksheet that first defines basic terms and then offers examples of correct usage. Armed with this information, young grammarians attack...
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K12 Reader

Relative Pronouns

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Do your learners know what relative pronouns are? How about relative clauses? They can practice identifying both of these by completing this worksheet. There are 25 sentences here for pupils to work with.
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PPT
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How to Avoid Sentence Fragments

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Finding dependent clauses separated from the rest of a sentence? Main clauses without verbs or subjects? Sounds like you are plagued by sentence fragments and that your writers need a quick review of this common grammatical error....

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