a type of simple sentence that expresses a fact or an opinion and most often ends with a full stop

a type of simple sentence that asks the reader for an answer and ends with a question mark

a punctuation mark used at the end of a question

a type of simple sentence that tells someone to do something and can end with an exclamation mark

a punctuation mark used to express strong emotion

Questions and commands

English

Present tense

Past tense

Present and past tense

Statements and questions

Joining using 'and'

Co-ordination with 'and'

In this unit, pupils learn to build grammatically accurate simple sentences with the correct word class, tense and punctuation. In 'Compound sentences', pupils will learn to join two simple sentences to build a compound sentence. 

In 'Word class', pupils learnt to identify and use the four main word classes. In this unit, pupils will learn to build grammatically accurate simple sentences with the correct word class, tense and punctuation.

In this unit, pupils learn to identify the simple present and past tenses by focusing on the verbs in sentences. They learn that a simple sentence is a complete sentence about one idea and can be a statement, question or command. They learn that two related ideas can be joined by the word 'and'.

Simple sentences

Which punctuation mark does a question always end with?

Which sentence type tells someone to do something?

a type of simple sentence that tells someone to do something

a type of simple sentence that asks the reader for an answer

a type of simple sentence that expresses a fact or opinion

Match the following keywords to their definitions:

Which of these comes at the start of a sentence?

a naming word for people, places or things

Match the word with the correct defintion.

Which of these sentences makes complete sense?

Match the following word to its word class.

Identify the noun in this sentence: The tall man jumped.

Questions and commands

Lesson outcome