Five sentence types
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This unit uses and builds on learning around writing simple, compound, adverbial and relative complex sentence structures reviewed and learnt in the Year 4 grammar unit 'Simple, compound, adverbial and relative complex sentences'. Pupils learn a new sentence structure - the non-finite complex sentence - which has a new comma rule and extends pupils' stylistic writing skills. All comma rules for sentence structure are now in place. This unit prepares pupils to consolidate all five taught sentence structures in the Year 6 grammar unit 'Using five sentence types'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A main clause is a group of words that contains a verb and makes complete sense.
- A simple sentence is formed of one main clause and there are four types of simple sentence: statement, question, command and exclamation.
- A compound sentence is formed of two main clauses that are joined by a co-ordinating conjunction.
- A subordinate clause is a group of words that contains a verb that does not make complete sense.
- An adverbial complex sentence is formed of at least one main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause.
- An adverbial clause starts with a subordinating conjunction and each subordinating conjunction has a different meaning.
- A relative complex sentence is formed of at least one main clause and a relative subordinate clause.
- A relative clause starts with a relative pronoun.
- A range of sentence types in writing creates text flow.
- A comma is an important piece of punctuation with more than one purpose, often used to demarcate clauses in compound and complex sentence structures.
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Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on learning around writing simple, compound, adverbial and relative complex sentence structures reviewed and learnt in the Year 4 grammar unit 'Simple, compound, adverbial and relative complex sentences'. Pupils learn a new sentence structure - the non-finite complex sentence - which has a new comma rule and extends pupils' stylistic writing skills. All comma rules for sentence structure are now in place. This unit prepares pupils to consolidate all five taught sentence structures in the Year 6 grammar unit 'Using five sentence types'.
Prior knowledge requirements
- A main clause is a group of words that contains a verb and makes complete sense.
- A simple sentence is formed of one main clause and there are four types of simple sentence: statement, question, command and exclamation.
- A compound sentence is formed of two main clauses that are joined by a co-ordinating conjunction.
- A subordinate clause is a group of words that contains a verb that does not make complete sense.
- An adverbial complex sentence is formed of at least one main clause and an adverbial subordinate clause.
- An adverbial clause starts with a subordinating conjunction and each subordinating conjunction has a different meaning.
- A relative complex sentence is formed of at least one main clause and a relative subordinate clause.
- A relative clause starts with a relative pronoun.
- A range of sentence types in writing creates text flow.
- A comma is an important piece of punctuation with more than one purpose, often used to demarcate clauses in compound and complex sentence structures.
Grammar
Five sentence types
In this unit, pupils learn a new sentence structure: the non-finite complex sentence. In so doing, they learn a new comma rule for how to separate a non-finite clause from a main clause. Pupils revise the other sentence structures they know: simple, compound, adverbial complex and relative complex.
6 lessons in unit
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