Simple, compound and complex sentences
This helpful PowerPoint resource with accompanying information sheet both support students in their understanding of different types of sentences and how to use these. The resource guides students clearly through simple sentences, compound sentences and complex sentences, the rules that help structure them and how to construct each type.
Students learn about the ways dependent clauses and subordinating clauses are made using coordinating conjunctions and subordinating conjunctions. They can apply this knowledge and experiment with how these clauses work with independent clauses to construct their own complex sentences.
The resource supports students to grow their confidence and understanding of sentence structure to help them use a variety of syntactical structures appropriately and creatively in their own work.
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A sample extract from the resource:
A complex sentence is one in which you glue extra information into a sentence. We call the original sentence the main clause, and the extra bit the subordinate clause.
Tommy loved his car, which was green.
Although he tried hard, Simon couldn’t get his hair right.
You can tell which is the main clause and which is the subordinate clause because a main clause always makes sense on its own, and a subordinate clause doesn’t.
Tommy loved his car.
Which was green.
Although he tried hard.
Simon couldn’t get his hair right.
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