Varying your sentences
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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Review this resourceThe 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.
"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.
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It was helpful for revising complex sentences.
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