Sentences
Important information about sentences
Five Basic Sentence Patterns
Five basic sentence patterns
Using Verbal Phrases in Sentences Elephants
Important information about sentence fluency
Quiz for Chapter 15
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
Quiz on the Simple Sentence
The simple sentence only
Quiz on the Compound Sentence
The Compound Sentence
Quiz on the Complex Sentence
The Complex Sentence
Sentence Combining: Adjectives and Adverbs
Learn to combine short sentences into longer stylistically fluent sentences
Using Coordinators and Subordinators to Show Emphasis
Learnig to use conjunctions and transition words
Sentence Combining Parallel Structure
Combine each group of sentences into one grammatically correct sentence.
Sentence Combining Coordination and Subordination
Combine each group of sentences into one grammatically correct sentence.
Creating Sentence Variety
Writing loose and periodic sentences.
Strategies for varying sentence, such as expanding the subject and expanding the object.
Compound Sentences: Run-ons and Comma Splices
A 15 item multiple choice quiz
Modifying Sentences with Verbal Phrases 2
Modifying Sentences with Verbal Phrases 3
Modifying Sentences with Verbal Phrases 1
Subject-verb Agreement, Coordination, Subordination, and Verbals
Combining and Expanding Sentences
Sentence Combining--Verbal Phrases Fenwick and Sally
Kolln Parallel Structure
Exercise in Parallel Structure
Combining Sentences 6/7/2018
Combining Sentences Using Verbals
Elephants
Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions
Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions 2
Adjectives, Adverbs, and Prepositions 3
Writing Longer Sentences
Emphasis at the Sentence Level
Creating Sentence Variety: Professional Examples
Resumptive, Summative, and Free Modifiers
Sentence Fluency: Reducing Clauses
Verbal Phrases: Fenwich, Sally and Morton
Five Basic Sentence Patterns 2
Five Basic Sentence Patterns 3
Sentence Styles: Resumptive and Summative Modifiers
Exercise on Parallel Structure
Basic Sentence Patterns
The Mid-branching Sentence
Explanation and exercise
Types of Sentences
Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory
Grammatical and Rhetorical Sentence Types
Creating Parallel Words or Phrases
Fill in the blank
Revising Sentences for Parallelism
10 sentences
Writing Resumptive and Summative Modifiers
6 sentences
Prepositions
A list with examples of prepositional phrases
Loose and Periodic Sentences
Sentence Combining (The Cosmic Navy)
Abstract, Concrete, General and Specific Terms
This page was written by John Friedlander, associate professor in the English department at Southwest Tennessee Community College. It is used here with his permission.
Prepositions
From Purdue Owl
Exercise : Prepositions of Direction: To, On (to), In (to)
Parts of Speech
Noun Clauses
Topic Sentences and Thesis Statements
Run-ons, Comma Splices, ad Fused Sentences
Grammar Review
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Mastering Sentence Structure
Adjective Order (Grammarly)
Flowchart: Finding and Fixing Run-Ons
Fusion Book 2: Sentence Basics
PowerPoint