a sentence formed of two simple sentences and a joining word

Joining with 'but'

English

Statements, questions and commands

Exclamations

Joining with 'and'

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

Match the sentence type to its definition.

Sofia got caught in the rain but she got to school on time.

Which joining word would best fill the gap in this sentence? I like to play outside _____ my favourite game is Tag.

Which joining word would best fill the gap in this sentence? She wanted an ice cream ________the shop was closed.

The gigantic dinosaur stomped its feet and the ground shook.

Identify the verb in this sentence: The little baby giggled happily.

Match the simple sentence type to the punctuation mark it most often ends with.

How many ideas are there in a compound sentence?

Exit Quiz

Tick the joining words.