a sentence about one idea that makes complete sense

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

a type of verb that starts a command and tells someone what to do

Statements, questions and commands

English

Exclamations

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

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

Tick the correct punctuation mark to complete this simple sentence: The door is pink

Match the simple sentence type to the definition.

Which of these would you find in a question?

What type of verb do you use at the start of a command to tell someone what to do?

Which one of these most often comes at the end of a sentence?

a naming word for people, places or things

Match the word with the correct definition.

Tick the sentence that has the correct punctuation:

What is the verb in this sentence? The teacher clapped his hands.

Which of these sentences makes complete sense?

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.

Statements, questions and commands

Lesson outcome

This lesson was made for home learning during the pandemic.