a sentence formed of two simple sentences and a joining word

Joining with 'and'

English

Statements, questions and commands

Exclamations

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

The building is large and the garden is lovely.

Aisha grabbed her coat and she played in the snow.

Tick the compound sentences which contain two ideas of equal importance.

Which word joins these two simple sentences together? I bought some sweets ______ I gave one to my friend.

Get your coat and go into the playground.

Match the simple sentence and the compound sentence.

We went to the restaurant and we ate pasta.

Sam ordered a cake and everybody sang "Happy Birthday".

A simple sentence must contain which two of these?

Which sentence is grammatically accurate?

Tick the simple sentences that make complete sense on their own.

Match the first idea to the second idea that it relates to.

Starter Quiz

A simple sentence must contain which two of these?