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Simple, Compound and Complex Sentences Worksheet Pack
A set of 6 worksheets teaching the concept of simple, compound and complex sentences.
This worksheet pack includes:
- What is a Sentence? worksheet – students create meaningful sentences by matching the sentence beginnings with a sentence ending.
- Simple Sentences worksheet – students underline the subject and verb in simple sentences and complete a cloze activity.
- Compound Sentences worksheet – students choose which conjunction works best to join simple sentences.
- Complex Sentences worksheet – students choose which conjunction works best to join clauses together to make a complex sentence. Students also highlight the independent clause in complex sentences.
- Sorting Sentences – Students sort simple, compound and complex sentences into their correct categories.
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Fixed an error in Sorting Sentences activity on page 5. 'I like bananas and grapes.' changed to 'I like bananas and I like grapes.'
Fix by Tom (Teach Starter) 1 day agoSpelling mistake on page 2 fixed: 'simiple' changed to 'simple'
Fix by Tom (Teach Starter) May 1st, 2020Re-worded two sentences in the compound sentences worksheet to avoid any confusion.
Change by Holly (Teach Starter) Jan 14th, 2018
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Great resource. A couple of very minor errors in the answer sheets for ‘What is a Sentence?’ & ‘Simple Sentences’…no biggy.
Denise Bichel · Aug 6th, 2020
Hi Denise,
Thank you for your comment! Can you please give us the specifics of the errors using the Report an Error tab above? This tab can be found near the comments section. This will help us keep our reports together and allow us to fix the problem quickly.
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Paul (Teach Starter) · Aug 6th, 2020
Some of the worksheet and powerpoint information is incorrect – some of your compound sentences are actually complex sentences eg. yet, or (depending on the sentence itself, or could be a binding conjunction)
· Dec 29th, 2017
Hi Deb,
Thanks so much for letting us know. Do you mind emailing [email protected] with a specific description of what you believe is incorrect? We would be more than happy to look into it for you.
Holly (Teach Starter) · Jan 11th, 2018
Hi Deb,
Thank you for alerting us to this. We have now amended the compound sentences worksheet. Please feel free to re-download the pack now. We really appreciate your feedback.
Holly (Teach Starter) · Jan 15th, 2018
I find this comment interesting as I used this resource a few weeks ago and the worksheets are still incorrect.
Kirsty Storrie · Jul 13th, 2018