University College London
The Internet Grammar of English: Sentences
This site from the Internet Grammar of English of the University College of London provides a general overview of sentence structure. Content includes an online exercise, and is worth checking out on the subject.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Editing for Sentence Structure
This lesson will give students tools and tips to edit sentence structure so that fragments and run-on sentences will not hamper their writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Simple Sentences: Oh So Happy!
Six slides introducing simple sentences, explaining how they are formed, and demonstrating how they can be linked together to create a compound sentence.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Complex Sentences
Nine slides introducing complex sentences, dependent clauses, and independent clauses and explaining how to identify and create them.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Sentences
An eight-slide presentation introducing compound sentences and explaining how to write them and why writers use them.
BBC
Bbc: Skillwise: English: Grammar: Word Types Quiz: Advanced Level
Assess knowledge and application of the parts of speech. Identify the part of speech within a sentence or on its own. Three levels of difficulty and immediate feedback are provided. Certificates available. Quiz can be downloaded in PDF...
BBC
Bbc: Skillwise: English: Grammar: Word Types: Parts of Speech Quiz: Basic Level
Quiz that assesses fundamental knowledge and application of the basic parts of speech. Identify the part of speech within a sentence or standing on its own. Three levels of difficulty and immediate feedback are provided. Certificates...
Other
Using English: Content Analysis Tool
How are your English writing skills coming along? This online text analyzer will help you assess word usage, sentence complexity, and other writing features. Copy and paste your text into the box and click to view statistics. This is...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Outlines
This lesson focuses on outlining; it defines outlining and the two types, topic and sentence. It provides two slideshows: the first focuses on creating the outline including the 4 steps, structure, and importance of flexibility; the...
Other
Sharpening Your Writing Skills
This handbook provides step-by-step modules to help you develop an appropriate business writing style. It also gives you rules for punctuation and "plain English." Answers are provided for exercises. PDF document.
Other
Hong Kong Polytech: Functions in Academic Writing
Provides a wealth of interactive exercises dealing mainly with the structuring of sentences in different kinds of academic writing.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Strategies for Revising: Practice 3
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, you will review the different types of clauses and sentences. You will also use editing strategies to help you add variety to your sentences. A step-by-step...
University College London
University College London: Clauses and Sentences
This section of an online English-grammar book introduces and provides examples of different types of clauses. Because this is from a British source, it uses different terms to identify the types of clauses, calling an independent...
English Club
English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Sports Cloze 1
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about different types of sports equiptment. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
English Club
English Club: Vocabulary: Cloze Games: Health 1
Choose from a word bank to complete ten sentences about terms related to different types of food. Hints are available if needed, and a percentage score is displayed once answers are submitted.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Connecting Clauses
Notes defining dependent and independent clauses, followed by an eleven-slide PowerPoint presentation defining and giving examples of simple, compound, and complex sentences. More notes explain subordinating conjunctions, conjunctive...
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Additive Transition Words
This lesson focuses on additive transition words; it defines transition words and lists the types of transitions. It explains additive transition words, offers a list of the most common ones, and provides example sentences showing how to...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: House Dictation (La Casa Dictado)
Spanish-speaking English language learners listen to five simple sentences in English about things found in the home. They type what they hear in the appropriate fields as the sentences are read and then check and correct their answers.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Article Usage
This tutorial focuses on the articles (a, an, the) including identifying them and the two types of articles: definite and indefinite. It offers 3 slide shows; the first one is non-audio and has students identify articles in sentences and...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Food Dictation (La Comida Dictado)
This site is for Spanish-speaking English language learners listen to five sentences in English and type what they hear in the appropriate fields. Answers can then be checked and corrected.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: People (La Gente)
Spanish-speaking English language learners listen to five simple sentences in English and type what they hear in the appropriate fields. Answers can then be checked and corrected.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: School (La Escuela)
Spanish-speaking English language learners listen to seven simple sentences in English and type what they hear in the appropriate fields. Answers can then be checked and corrected.
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Future (El Futuro)
Spanish-speaking English language learners listen to five simple sentences in English about what the future may bring and type what they hear in the appropriate fields. Answers can then be checked and corrected.