Adverbial complex sentences
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This unit uses and builds on learning around writing the four types of simple sentence and the three types of compound sentence learnt in the Year 2 grammar unit 'Compound sentences'. The critical learning that pupils do in this unit is around the idea of subordination or dependency within a sentence. They learn that the first main idea in a sentence can be stretched with a joining word to a second subordinate or dependent idea. This unit prepares pupils for further adverbial complex sentence structure work in the Year 3 grammar unit 'Simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A simple sentence is about one idea and makes complete sense.
- Any simple sentence contains one verb and at least one noun.
- Two simple sentences can be joined with a co-ordinating conjunction to form a compound sentence.
- Different co-ordinating conjunctions have different purposes in a compound sentence.
- Grammatically accurate sentences start with capital letters and most often end with full stops.
- The tense of a sentence changes the time frame of the action.
- Tense is maintained in a simple or compound sentence.
- A simple or compound sentence can be written in the past or present tense.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on learning around writing the four types of simple sentence and the three types of compound sentence learnt in the Year 2 grammar unit 'Compound sentences'. The critical learning that pupils do in this unit is around the idea of subordination or dependency within a sentence. They learn that the first main idea in a sentence can be stretched with a joining word to a second subordinate or dependent idea. This unit prepares pupils for further adverbial complex sentence structure work in the Year 3 grammar unit 'Simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A simple sentence is about one idea and makes complete sense.
- Any simple sentence contains one verb and at least one noun.
- Two simple sentences can be joined with a co-ordinating conjunction to form a compound sentence.
- Different co-ordinating conjunctions have different purposes in a compound sentence.
- Grammatically accurate sentences start with capital letters and most often end with full stops.
- The tense of a sentence changes the time frame of the action.
- Tense is maintained in a simple or compound sentence.
- A simple or compound sentence can be written in the past or present tense.
Grammar
Adverbial complex sentences
In this unit, pupils learn that a sentence about one idea can be stretched with a second idea that is dependent on the first. They learn to stretch with the subordination joining words 'because', 'when', 'if', 'so' and 'that'. Pupils learn to keep tense consistent when stretching with subordination.
5 lessons in unit
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