These posters have examples of the different complex sentences modeled in a series of lessons to help learners develop their use of complex sentences. The posters can be displayed during lessons as a ...

This is a series of lessons about using complex sentences in story writing. There are lots of examples of different complex sentences and lessons with labeled diagrams of sentences so that learners ...

The Suspensive FormEach individual "sentence" that makes up a piece of writing.If we define a "sentence" as the unit from one ...

Writers choose and build different types of sentences carefully. There are three main types of sentence structure - simple close simple sentenceA sentence containing one clause made up of a subject ...

A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

Conjoining can be as simple as joining the sentences using a conjunctor with hardly any change at all in the combined sentences. The conjunctor kaya' makes explicit the fact that the second event is a ...

Hello! This week on Ask a Teacher, we answer a question from a reader in Burma, also known as Myanmar. For example, “we laughed” is a clause. “We” is the subject, and “laughed” is the verb. “In the ...

A complex sentence communicates more than one idea. One part (the main clause) is like a simple sentence: it can stand on its own. The other part (the minor clause) gives more detail about the simple ...