This lesson focuses on recognizing run-on sentences and demonstrating revision for run-on sentences. It discusses common causes of run-ons and ways to fix them, as well as, a practice activity.

An exercise where students read ten sets of three sentences and chooses which sentence in each set is a complete sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any that were missed.

Students will take a previously created paragraph and edit it to make it better by adding details, definitions, a topic sentence, or a closure to an informational paragraph. Resources include a PowerPoint presentation and pictures and...

After students are given time to think about the topic -"Alone Time with an Adult I Care about," they are given ten to fifteen minutes to write between five and ten sentences on the topic. They ten are told they will revise their...

This lesson focuses on recognizing sentence fragments and demonstrating revision for sentence fragments. It discusses common causes of fragments and ways to fix them, as well as, providing practice activity.

This lesson offers suggestions to help you fix short, choppy sentences, combine sentences with the same subject, and revise sentences that sound the same. L.11-12.3 Language Functions/Style

An eleven-question quiz asking students to identify active and passive voice in sentences. Percentage grades and correct answers are displayed once answers are submitted.

This site from the Capital Community College defines the term and gives many examples of faulty parallelism and the corrected version of sentences. Includes links to a couple of quizzes at the bottom of the page. "Most of the...

This lesson explains how to change a sentence from the passive voice to the active voice.

Defines the term and gives a number of detailed examples of its use. Also includes proofreading strategies to try. L.9-10.1a Parallelism

Learn more about active and passive voice by identifying the doer subject and the action verb of these ten sentences.