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BBC

Bbc: Skillwise: English: Sentence Variety Grammar Games

For Students K - 1st Standards
Designed to help students practice the elements of sentence design, these games provide different levels of difficulty for users of all ages. The sentence variety games include: Is This a Compound Sentence, Logging Sentences, Make a...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Compound Sentences & Fanboys

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to an image, videos, and texts about compound sentences and the coordinating conjunctions used to form them.
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English Plus+

English Plus: Commas in Compound Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This grammar tutorial provides rules for the comma to separate independent clauses in a compound sentence.
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Commas vs. Semicolons in Compound Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson presents information on the use of the comma and semicolon in a compound sentence. A link will take you to an interactive exercise that applies the mechanics content. L.9-10.2a Punc/Indep Clause
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University of Ottawa (Canada)

University of Ottawa: Hyper Grammar: Building Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Tu3083 Simple, Complex and Compound Sentences

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
A fourteen-part learning module can be used while teaching and reviewing sentence structures. This blendspace includes three video lessons, posters, and interactive practice activities.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Elements of Sentence Construction

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry focuses on the Elements of Sentence Construction including subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses, compound sentence elements, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and fused sentences.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Complex and Compound Complex Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Complex sentences are simple sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them. Compound-complex sentences are compound sentences with dependent or subordinate clauses added to them.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Writing

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This five-part learning module provides assorted references for sentence writing. This blendspace provides video writing tasks, resource sheets, and reference page links. Most of the spaces relate to writing compound and complex sentences.
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Towson University

Towson University: Ows: Avoiding Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This entry explains and provides examples of comma splices and fused sentences and how to fix them.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Sentence Types and Comma Rules

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
A 21-part learning module including links to texts, images, videos, exercises, and websites on simple, compound, and complex sentences and their rules for comma use.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Complex and Compound Complex Sentences: Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Choose the sentence that correctly combines two statements in order to create a complex or compound-complex sentence in this seven-question quiz.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Avoiding Run on Sentences Practice Exercise

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
An exercise with ten run-on sentences where students are asked to choose which re-written sentence is correct. A percentage score is given at the end of the exercise.
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Avoiding Fragments

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry focuses on forming complete sentences by identifying fragments, comma splices, and fused sentences and learning how to correct them. It provides the rules, examples of errors, and examples of how to correct each type of error.
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English for Everyone

English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 1: Level 6 [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 6 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound and complex sentences.
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: English 4; Loyalty and Betrayal

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A learning module asking students to analyze fiction, examine symbolism and cultural context, read a section of The Kite Runner, practice context clues and Greek and Latin roots, and practice sentence variety with compound and complex...
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Towson University

Towson University: Subject Verb Agreement

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This webpage provides a list of nine rules for subject-verb agreement including examples with detailed explanations including arrows and notes as well as exceptions to the rules. It also provides links to terms which are defined with...
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iCivics

I Civics: Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This mini-lesson covers the basics of the Supreme Court's decision that overturned "separate but equal" in public schools. Students learn about segregation and "equality under the law," and they use what they learned to craft compound...
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Towson University

Towson University: Online Writing Support: Comma

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This entry focuses on the rules for comma use including listing the uses, explaining the rules, and providing detailed examples.
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Get It Write

Get It Write: Using the Semicolon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Clear lesson on when to use (and when not to use) a semicolon. The article ends with a self-test and answers. L.9-10.2a Punc/Indep Clause

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