1. Grammar Lesson 5: Simple, compound and complex sentences
L.O: To revise the different types of sentences and practice using them.

2. Grammar Recap What is a verb?
A verb is an action or doing word: played, grew, chatted, run, sleep, etc.

3. A sentence has to be about something for it to make sense.
Grammar Recap
A sentence has to be about something for it to make sense.
So, sentences need to include a verb or they’re not proper sentences (and they won’t make sense).

4. Now write three of your own simple sentences and highlight the verb.
A simple sentence is one which contains only one piece of information, or tells us only one thing. It has one verb.
Tommy loved his car.
Simon bought some new hair gel.
Amy ate three cakes!
Now write three of your own simple sentences and highlight the verb.

5. Grammar recap What is a conjunction?
Conjunctions are used to join words or groups of words together. The most common ones are and, or and but.

6. Compound sentences
A compound sentence is one in which you join two simple sentences together. We use conjunctions like ‘and’, ‘but’, or ‘so’ to do this. James loved his car and polished it every day. Ben bought new hair gel but it didn’t work very well. 3

7. Compound sentences are a type of fruit. often have wet noses. and
I still don’t like the dark.
I’ll take an umbrella.
I won’t eat any more crisps.
Apples grow on trees
Dogs are very hairy
Monsters don’t exist
It’s raining hard
There are chips for lunch
and
but so 4

8. Change simple sentences you wrote into compound sentences.

9. Grammar recap What is a clause?
A clause is a part of a sentence which has a subject (John, cat, monster etc.) and a verb.

10. Gary watches television. Susie brushes her teeth.
Clauses
Verb
Subject
Gary watches television.
Susie brushes her teeth.
Subject
Verb

11. Complex sentences
A complex sentence is one in which you add extra information into a sentence. We call the original sentence the main clause, and the extra bit the subordinate clause. Tommy loved his car, which was green. Although he tried hard, Simon couldn’t get his hair right. 5

12. Subordinate Clauses can go..
Where can subordinate clauses go?
At the start
Although he tried hard, Simon couldn’t get his hair right.
At the end
Tommy loved his car, which was green.
In the middle
Tommy, a motor enthusiast, loved his car. .

13. Complex sentences
You can tell which is the main clause and which is the subordinate clause because a main clause always makes sense on its own, and a subordinate clause doesn’t. Tommy loved his car. Which was green. Although he tried hard. Simon couldn’t get his hair right.

14. Complex sentences
The subordinate clause can also come in the middle of the sentence. Simon, a Manchester United fan, loved football. 7

15. Underline the subordinate clause.
Complex sentences
Underline the subordinate clause.
The shops, which were usually lit up, looked closed today.
Despite eating twenty biscuits, Sam was still hungry.
Snuggled up in my dressing gown, I didn’t want to leave the house.

16. Underline the subordinate clause.
Complex sentences
Underline the subordinate clause.
The shops, which were usually lit up, looked closed today.
Despite eating twenty biscuits, Sam was still hungry.
Snuggled up in my dressing gown, I didn’t want to leave the house.
Now write three of your own complex sentences.

17. Simple, compound, or complex?
The cat stretched and ate his food.
Only apples grow on apple trees.
If you want to succeed, which I’m sure you do, you will have to work hard.
The little dinosaur, small though it was, still looked scary to me!
The rattling sound seemed to be coming from my waste paper bin.

18. Simple, compound, or complex?
The cat stretched and ate his food. - compound
Only apples grow on apple trees. - simple
If you want to succeed, which I’m sure you do, you will have to work hard. complex
The little dinosaur, small though it was, still looked scary to me! complex
The rattling sound seemed to be coming from my waste paper bin. simple

19. Now write a paragraph of your powerful speech using ALL three sentence types.
When you have completed you paragraph highlight the different sentence types in three different colours. ©
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