The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Clause Quiz 1
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on clauses where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an independent clause, an appositive, a restrictive clause, a non-restrictive clause, or a phrase.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Clause Quiz 2
The Tongue Untied provides a twenty-question interactive quiz on clauses where the underlined group of words must be identified as either an independent clause, an appositive, a restrictive clause, a non-restrictive clause, or a phrase.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Noun Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a noun phrase in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Participle Phrase
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a participial phrase in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Adverb Clause
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an adverb clause in the context of a sentence.
Other
English Language: Smart Words: Transitional Words and Phrases
Lists of transitional words or phrases broken into categories based on their purposes. Can be downloaded in PDF format. There is also a short discussion of their important role in essay writing. W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Center for Writing Studies: Grammar Handbook
Use this handbook to review specific grammar or usage areas, including parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentence structure, and common usage problems. L.9-10.1 Grammar/Usage, L.11-12.1 Gram/Usage Conventions
Other
Legal Writing: Dependent Clauses & Phrases
This writing guide for law students provides information on distinguishing phrases and independent and dependent clauses.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Interactive Phrase Quiz #2
A twenty-question quiz asking students to determine if the underlined phrase is an infinitive phrase, an appositive, a gerund phrase, a prepositional phrase, a clause, or a participial phrase.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Parts of the Sentence
This University of Ottawa site overviews the parts of the sentence and then provides a list of links to the various individual parts including subject and predicate, objects and complements, noun, pronoun, phrase, clause, and a review...
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Identifying Clauses
This site is set up like a quiz with ten questions involving various groups of words that must be identified as either a phrase or a clause.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Adjective Clauses: Lesson 5
This lesson introduces adjective clauses and their placement in a sentence. It is 5 of 5 in the series titled "Adjective Clauses."
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.
English Zone
English zone.com: Noun Clauses: Using Infinitives
An interactive exercise with four examples followed by ten sentences. Students complete each question by combining two sentences while using an infinitive phrase. When finished, students can check to see how many answers are correct.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dependent and Independent Clauses Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a series of assessment items in which students determine whether the phrases are dependent or independent clauses.
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Writing Center: Using Semicolons
A writing tutorial for the correct use of semicolons to link two independent clauses, clauses with commas, clauses connected by conjunctive adverbs or transitional phrases, and to link lists where the items contain commas. Examples and...
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Commas After Introductions
This lesson from Purdue's Online Writing Lab provides a definition of phrase and instructions on how to punctuate different types of introductory phrases. There is also a link to an exercise on this topic.
Grammarly
Grammarly Blog: Commas After Introductory Words
This Grammarly Handbook resource explains how to use commas after introductory elements. Numerous examples of commas after introductory phrases, introductory clauses, and introductory transitions are provided in this resource.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Complex Pirate Sentences
In this lesson, Melinda Long's picture book entitled How I Became a Pirate is used as the mentor text. Students will record their favorite complex sentences from the text and share them. Students will also use interactive buttons to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Paper Writing: Transitions and Topic Sentences
This tutorial focuses on transitions including transitional devices, lists of common transition words and phrases, transitions between paragraphs with examples, and separate lists of transition words for descriptive, narrative, and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Revision Strategies: Parallelism
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Parallelism in writing requires aligning words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in similar grammatical structures. This lesson will provide you with strategies to help you...
University of Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin: Using Transitions: Transitional Words and Phrases
Tables of words that show different types of sentence transitions. W.9-10.1c cohesion/clarity/reason, W.9-10.2c cohesion/clarity/transitions. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.4, W.11-12.1c Transitions/Cohesion, W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion....
English Worksheets Land
English Worksheets Land: Using Commas With Introductory Phrases [Pdf]
This learning exercise requires that you identify correctly punctuated sentences with introductory elements, then correct those which are incorrect.
California State University
California State University Domingues Hills: Comma Usage: Introductory Phrases
This fifteen-item worksheet will help you determine how well you understand how to use commas with introductory elements in a sentence.
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