Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Subordinating Conjunctions
This lesson is about the proper use of subordinating conjunctions. You will learn to make your writing more interesting by using conjunctions, but you will specifically focus on subordinating conjunctions such as because, when, while.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Subordinating Conjunctions
Learn how to use and understand the purpose of subordinating conjunctions.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Subordinating Conjunctions
This lesson focuses on subordinating conjunctions; it discusses their purpose, explains the questions they address, and provides a list of them. It also shows how to punctuate sentences with subordinate clauses based on their location in...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Subordinating Conjunctions
This slideshow lesson focuses on subordinating conjunctions by defining them, listing them, and providing examples showing placement and how to punctuate them correctly.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Subordinating Conjunctions [Pdf]
To review subordinating conjunctions, you'll find a list of common subordinating conjunctions and two exercises in which learners practice their understanding. [PDF]
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Subordinate Conjunction
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a subordinating conjunction, a subordinate conjunction, in the context of a sentence.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Subordinate Conjunction
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a subordinating conjunction, a subordinate conjunction, in the context of a sentence.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Basic Subordinating Conjunctions
This English language tutorial explains subordinating conjunctions. Offers charts, examples, and links to self-tests.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Subordinate Conjunctions
This video lesson focuses on subordinate conjunctions; it defines them and related terms such as dependent and independent clauses, provides a list of common subordinate conjunctions, and examples of their use. It also covers how to...
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Subordinating Conjunctions
Maintained by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications, this site offers a standard definition and numerous examples of subordinating conjunctions, using journalistic (newspaper-like) examples. Provides list of...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Subordinating Conjunction Rules [Pdf]
This PDF provides a writer's handout which covers the rules for using subordinating conjunctions. There are three complex sentence patterns to learn with subordinating conjunctions. Two patterns require you to make use of commas; one...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Basic Subordinating Conjunctions 1 Exercise
This quiz asks students to supply the missing conjunctions from complete sentences. Fairly simple eight-question exercise.
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Basic Subordinating Conjunctions 2
This quiz asks students to supply the missing conjunctions from complete sentences. Multiple answers possible on this six-question exercise.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conjunctions: An Introduction
This slideshow lesson focuses on conjunctions; it defines conjunctions. It explains each of the three types of conjunctions: coordinating, subordinating, and correlative. It defines each, lists the conjunctions, and provides sentences...
Other
Sna English: Subordinating Conjunctions [Pdf]
A two-page worksheet which asks students to identify the subordinating conjunctions in sentences, then complete sentences by adding appropriate subordinating conjunctions. [PDF]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Subordinating Conjunctions
This lesson introduces subordinating conjunctions and goes over how they can be used.
English Plus+
English Plus: Subordinating Conjunction
A simple explanation of subordinating conjunctions with examples. The page includes a list of common subordinating conjunctions.
The Tongue Untied
The Tongue Untied: Conjunctions
Come and learn about all types of conjunctions when you visit this educational resource. This site gives a clear definition of the function of a conjunction. Use the "Turn the Page," function to learn more.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: Realism: Clauses
This lesson focuses on clauses including dependent, independent, adjective, adverb, and noun clauses. It also explains the use of subordinate conjunctions, relative pronouns, and relative adverbs and provides examples. It features a...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Conjunctions
A screencast lesson [4 mins, 24 secs] introducing and providing examples of coordinating, subordinating, and correlative conjunctions.
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: The Subordinate Clause
The section of this site dedicated to the subordinate clause provides the user with skills to be able to recognize subordinate clauses through a list of subordinate conjunctions and relative pronouns along with examples and reminders.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Subordination and Coordination Quick Guide
This article focuses on subordination and coordination including, process of linking clauses with punctuation and conjunctions, types of conjunctions, dependent and independent clauses.
The Tongue Untied
Tongue Untied Correlative Conjunctions
Maintained by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communications, this site offers numerous examples of the rules of correlative conjunction usage. Also has hyperlinks to sections on subordinating conjunctions, coordinating...
Robin L. Simmons
Grammar Bytes: Presentations: Coordination and Subordination Power Point
A PowerPoint slide explaining the use of coordinate and subordinate conjunctions to join clauses. Questions that may be found on standardized tests are included.