9 free sentences & clauses resources. Simple, compound and complex sentences; conjunctions; clauses. Typically taught from Year 2 to Year 9.
Children learn that a complete sentence needs a 'who or what' (the subject) and a 'what happens' (the verb), and that it makes sense on…
Students learn that conjunctions are joining words that link two ideas into one sentence, and that each one shows a different…
Students learn that a compound sentence joins two complete sentences (independent clauses) with a comma and a coordinating conjunction…
Students learn that a complex sentence has a main clause that can stand alone and a subordinate clause that cannot, joined by a…
Students learn to spot the three most common sentence faults (fragments, run-ons and comma splices) and to fix them using conjunctions,…
Students diagnose the sentence faults that persist into high school (fragments, fused run-ons and comma splices), repair them, and then go…
Students learn that in the active voice the subject does the action (the council approved the plan) while in the passive the subject…
Students learn to control rhythm and flow at paragraph level: varying sentence length and type (simple, compound, complex), opening…
Students learn to cut what does not earn its place: redundant pairs (each and every), padded phrases (due to the fact that), empty openers…