Writing Sentences
Simple sentences contain one clause and a subject, verb and predicate.
example: The clothes did not fit the baby.
example: The clothes did not fit the baby.
Compound sentences contain 2 independent clauses connected by punctuation and a coordinating conjunction.
Coordinating conjunctions are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
example: I hate to waste the food on my plate, but my baby brother never eats his vegetables.
Coordinating conjunctions are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.
example: I hate to waste the food on my plate, but my baby brother never eats his vegetables.
Complex sentences contain 1 independent clause and a dependent clause joined by a subordinating conjunction. Generally, there is no puncuation following the independent clause, but there are exceptions. If the dependent clause with the subordinating conjunction comes before the independent clause, then punctuation should follow the dependent clause.
Subordinating conjunctions are:
after although as because before even if even though if in order that
once provided that rather than since so that than that though
unless until when whenever where whereas wherever whether
while why
example: Ronnie begins to sneeze continuously whenever he tries to dust the house.
example: As Jake tried to blow out the candles atop his cake, he forgot one.
Subordinating conjunctions are:
after although as because before even if even though if in order that
once provided that rather than since so that than that though
unless until when whenever where whereas wherever whether
while why
example: Ronnie begins to sneeze continuously whenever he tries to dust the house.
example: As Jake tried to blow out the candles atop his cake, he forgot one.
ELA Test Prep Practice Passages
ELA 2017 Exam Questions ELA 2017 Exam Scoring Materials RACCE Bookmark and Rubric for Responses
Comparing 2 Fiction Texts Double Dutch_Its Our World Excerpt from Daughter of the Sea Fiction 2_Go Fish
Poetry Squirrel_Campfire Songs NonFiction 3_Antarctica Nonfiction 2 Mentor Passages Wolf Stalker
Find the Clues Characterization Activity Fiction 4_Into the Darkness Fiction 5_Act Your Age
Fiction 6_Quilt Poetry
Comparing 2 Fiction Texts Double Dutch_Its Our World Excerpt from Daughter of the Sea Fiction 2_Go Fish
Poetry Squirrel_Campfire Songs NonFiction 3_Antarctica Nonfiction 2 Mentor Passages Wolf Stalker
Find the Clues Characterization Activity Fiction 4_Into the Darkness Fiction 5_Act Your Age
Fiction 6_Quilt Poetry
NonFiction/Expository Writing
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