Simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences
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This unit uses and builds on learning around writing simple, compound and adverbial complex sentence structures learnt in the Year 2 grammar unit 'Adverbial complex sentences'. The critical learning in this unit is that there are conventions around when commas are placed within compound and adverbial complex sentence structures. Pupils also learn for the first time that the adverbial clause can be first or second in a complex sentence. This unit prepares pupils to learn a new complex sentence structure in the Year 4 grammar unit 'Simple, compound, adverbial and relative 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.
- The two ideas in a compound sentence hold equal grammatical weight.
- A simple sentence can be stretched with subordination to form an adverbial complex sentence.
- The second idea in an adverbial complex sentence is of lower importance to the first idea.
- Co-ordination and subordination help our writing flow.
- A simple, compound or adverbial complex sentence can be written in the past or present tense.
- Tense is maintained in a simple, compound or adverbial complex sentence.
- Grammatically accurate sentences start with capital letters and most often end with full stops.
Threads
Why this why now
This unit uses and builds on learning around writing simple, compound and adverbial complex sentence structures learnt in the Year 2 grammar unit 'Adverbial complex sentences'. The critical learning in this unit is that there are conventions around when commas are placed within compound and adverbial complex sentence structures. Pupils also learn for the first time that the adverbial clause can be first or second in a complex sentence. This unit prepares pupils to learn a new complex sentence structure in the Year 4 grammar unit 'Simple, compound, adverbial and relative 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.
- The two ideas in a compound sentence hold equal grammatical weight.
- A simple sentence can be stretched with subordination to form an adverbial complex sentence.
- The second idea in an adverbial complex sentence is of lower importance to the first idea.
- Co-ordination and subordination help our writing flow.
- A simple, compound or adverbial complex sentence can be written in the past or present tense.
- Tense is maintained in a simple, compound or adverbial complex sentence.
- Grammatically accurate sentences start with capital letters and most often end with full stops.
Grammar
Simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences
In this unit, pupils learn two comma rules within different sentence structures: compound and adverbial complex sentences. Pupils revise simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences and extend their knowledge by learning that an adverbial clause can come first or second in a complex sentence.
8 lessons in unit
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