Pennsylvania Department of Education
Giving Things a Name
Students label images seen on an interactive website. In this early writing lesson, students do their best to write the name of the object seen on the screen.
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.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Grammar: Sentence Structure
This lesson focuses on sentence structure including the parts of a sentence, types of sentences, sentence patterns, run-on sentences, fragments, phrases and clauses, and much more. It also includes a video, practices, and a self-check.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Sentence Structure
This page offers a list of links to entries about sentence structure including elements of sentence construction, sentence types and punctuation, connectors, sentence patterns, pattern transformations, and active/passive voice.
University of Ottawa (Canada)
University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Sentences
An excellent site which outlines the types of sentences - simple, compound, and complex. Gives in-depth information and examples of each. Includes review exercises for practice or assessment.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Teaching Simple and Compound Sentences in Context
A teaching resource with lesson plans, handouts, and four videos demonstrating how to teacher sentence structure through mentor sentences.
Fun Trivia
Fun Trivia: Sentence Structure Challenge Trivia Quiz
A ten-question exercise where students read each sentence and decide if it is a simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence. When finished, students can check their answers and see the correct answers to any questions missed.
Other
Western Grammar: Module 2: Advanced Sentence Structure
Online grammar textbook explaining sentence structure provides definitions of different types of subordinate clauses and exercises related to this topic. There is also information on phrases and other components of sentences.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: No Nonsense Grammar: Using Varied Sentence Types
While they aren't wrong, overusing simple sentences can be dull and boring. Make use of compound or complex sentences! [0:44]
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Exercise 6
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on determining Sentence Patterns.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Sentence Patterns Transformations Exercise 2
This is a 15-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on making Sentence Patterns Transformations.
Quia
Quia: Sentence Structure Practice Game
An interactive game focused on sentence structure. Students answer fifteen increasingly difficult questions about simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in order to win the game. Three hints are available, but if a...
SUNY Empire State College
Empire State College: Quiz: Compound and Complex Sentences
This resource offers a short, five-question quiz on compound and complex sentences. It gives information, explanations, and the correct answers.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Compound Complex Sentences: Lesson 1
This lesson introduces compound-complex sentences and how they are constructed. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Compound-Complex Sentences."
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: 10th Grade Grammar
This article focuses on what grammar 10th graders need to know to be successful in the upper grades and college. These include the following: parts of speech, sentence structure/syntax, types of sentences, types of clauses, parallelism,...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Text Structure
This resource focuses on text structure by defining the types of organizational patterns and providing examples of each. These are followed by a list of links to practice activities on text structure and main idea, as well as some videos.
English Club
English Club: Sentence Variety
This EnglishClub tutorial discusses the importance of using sentence variety in the context of paragraphs. The tutorial provides information about sentence types, sentence patterns, and sentence lengths.
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Run on Sentences
This site shows how to repair run-on sentences. Students and teachers will find this interactive resource helpful.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Avoiding Shifts
This entry focuses on avoiding shifts when writing sentences including shifts in verb tense, mood, number, person, discourse, and sentence structure. It provides explanation and examples of each type of error and explanation and examples...
The Write Place
Literacy Education Online
Literacy Education Online (or LEO) is a great place to start if you need help with your writing. The homepage is organized around kinds of problems or questions you might have concerning your writing. Find your problem, click on the...
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Possessive Forms
As you learn possessive forms, you will also learn about gerunds, present participles, compound nouns and more. This is a very complete resource tool for this subject.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Recognizing the Function of Phrases
In this quiz, students read the sentence, determine the function of the group of words in all capitals and select the correct answer. Java is required.