Exclamations

English

Statements, questions and commands

Joining with 'and'

Joining with 'but'

Joining with 'or'

Co-ordination three ways

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

How many types of simple sentence are there?

Match the definition to the simple sentence type.

Identify which of these sentences is a command.

Identify which of these sentences are exclamations.

Which punctuation mark do all questions end with?

What is the verb in this sentence? The puppies are cuddly.

Starter Quiz

Which punctuation mark do all questions end with?