joining two simple sentences with 'and', 'but' or 'or'

Co-ordination three ways

English

Statements, questions and commands

Exclamations

Joining with 'and'

Joining with 'but'

Joining with 'or'

Co-ordination for text flow

In this unit, pupils learn co-ordination to form compound sentences. In 'Adverbial complex sentences', pupils will begin to learn about subordination to form complex sentences.

In 'Simple sentences', pupils learnt to understand and write different types of simple sentence and to join two simple sentences using 'and'. In this unit, pupils will learn co-ordination to form compound sentences.

In this unit, pupils learn that a simple sentence is a complete sentence about one idea that can be an exclamation as well as statements, questions and commands. They learn that two ideas can be joined by three different joining words for co-ordination: 'and', 'but', 'or'.

Compound sentences

They include two ideas of equal importance.

What are the key features of a compound sentence?

start a sentence to tell the reader when something happens.

Identify the verbs in this compound sentence: 'Let's go to the park and play on our skateboards.'

What is the purpose of a joining word in a compound sentence?

What joining word is missing from this compound sentence? 'I want to go on the swings __________ they are always busy.'

a naming word for people, places or things

a sentence about one idea that makes complete sense

a sentence formed of two simple sentences and a joining word

Match the sentence type to its definition.

Identify the joining word in this compound sentence: 'I don't eat meat but I do eat fish.'

Starter Quiz

What is a verb?