Compound Sentences
Today we are going to revise a skill we have learned already in Year 2. We are going to be using coordinating conjunctions to join ideas and make sentences longer.
These coordinating conjunctions include: and, but, or
A simple sentence includes a subject and a verb. For example:
Sulaiman watered his flowers. He hung out his washing.
Sulaiman is the subject (who the sentence is about) and watered is the verb (the action).
He is the subject (we know it is talking about Sulaiman still but the pronoun 'he' has been used instead of repeating his name) and hung is the verb (because hung is the past tense of the verb 'to hang').
When we write a compound sentence, we join the ideas together to form a longer sentence.
main clause + conjunction + main clause
Sulaiman watered his flowers and he hung out his washing.
Let's see if we can say a compound sentence about this picture.
The boys want to play baseball but they have lost their ball.
Now it's your turn. Say another sentence to the person next to you about this sentence using the coordinating conjunctions and, but, or to join your ideas.
If you are at home, email your sentence to your teacher when you have shared it with someone in your family.