Varying your sentences

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14 reviews
Last updated: 23/11/2023
Contributor: Karen Dobbins
Varying your sentences
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Language: Grammar, spelling and vocabulary
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Student activity
A number of tasks to support students' understanding of simple, compound and complex sentences. The worksheet provides information about each type of sentence with examples of how they should be used. Students are given two extracts from texts and are tasked with identifying the different types of sentence. 

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The example of a compound sentence is wrong.

"The cat sat on the mat AND licked his paw." is still a simple sentence because "licked his paw" isn't a main clause/simple sentence - it doesn't have a subject.

Harry Forrester

23/11/2023

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29/11/2020

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18/05/2020

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23/11/2019

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The example of a compound sentence is wrong.

"The cat sat on the mat AND licked his paw." is still a simple sentence because "licked his paw" isn't a main clause/simple sentence - it doesn't have a subject.

Harry Forrester

23/11/2023

5

29/11/2020

5

18/05/2020

5

23/11/2019

5

02/09/2019

It was helpful for revising complex sentences.

16/01/2014

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