Curated OER
Commas and Semi-Colons
Students use commas and semi-colons correctly in sentences. In this commas and semi-colons lesson, students review a study sheet in which they go over the basic rules of comma and semi-colon usage. Students then insert commas and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Main and Subordinate Clauses
In this lesson, we are going to learn how to use and understand main clauses and subordinate clauses to improve your writing.
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...
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.
Rutgers University
Rutgers Univ.: Guide to Grammar and Style: Dependent Versus Independent Clauses
This site has a section from an online source called the Guide to Grammar and Style which provides an explanation of the difference between dependent and independent clauses.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Exercise: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying sentence fragments and then fixing them.
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.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Left Brained Writing Prompt: The Start and Stop Game: Clauses
To use this writing prompt generator, click on the button until you find a subordinate clause that inspires a description or a poem in your mind. Sometimes just one good clause can put a whole story idea in your head! The object of every...
Other
Legal Writing: Dependent Clauses & Phrases
This writing guide for law students provides information on distinguishing phrases and independent and dependent clauses.
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.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Dependent Clauses: Adverbial, Adjectival, Nominal
This entry defines dependent clauses including Adverbial, Adjectival, and Nominal; explains and lists their common introductory words, and provides examples of their uses in sentences.
University of Sydney (Australia)
The Write Site: What Are Sentence Fragments?
This learning module provides a clear explanation of sentence fragments. Hints for finding sentence fragments are provided, along with explanations about how to fix them.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Independent and Dependent Clauses
This online writing lab offers definitions of the two main types of clauses as well as related concepts. It provides examples and offers instructions for avoiding common mistakes with clauses. L.9-10.1b Phrases/Clauses
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: The Crucible: Fragments and Run on Sentences
This lesson focuses on fragments and run-on sentences including explaining dependent and independent clauses, fragments, run-ons, comma splices, and coordinating conjunctions. It provides examples and links to quizzes.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Sentence Fragments Exercise 1
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Complete Sentence Fragments Exercise 2
This Purdue University OWL (Online Writing Lab) provides practice with identifying complete sentences and sentence fragments.
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.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Sentence Combining Skills
Students sometimes have difficulty learning to combine sentences correctly and effectively. This site discusses several methods and provides practice opportunities and quizzes.
University of Victoria (Canada)
The U Vic Writer's Guide: Sentence Fragments
This writing lab site defines sentence fragments and gives a tip to help determine whether or not a group of words is a fragment.