english lesson

Homonyms and Compound Sentences

Fourth Grade English

Homonyms Homonyms are words that sound alike

but are spelled differently and have different meanings.

An example of this is night and knight.

Night

Knight

HomonymsThis week’s spelling list focuses on

homonyms.List:

Sail Sale Write Right

Spelling List Bear Bare Tale Tail

How do I know its the right word? To figure out if the homonym is the right

word: Ask yourself if it makes sense Check the Word Wall Ask a table mate. And if all else fails:

Ask the teacher

Homonyms and Grammar I need to right a paragraph.

Is this wrong? YES! The correct answer is: write.

We saw a picture of a bare in science class today. Is this wrong?

YES! The correct answer is: bear

That man told a long tale. Is this wrong?

NO!

Build your own! I/like/play/with/dog’s/ (tail or tale).

I like to play with the dog’s tail. We/spotted/(sail or sale)/near/the dock/

yesterday. We spotted a sail near the dock yesterday

Review of Homonyms What is a homonym?

Homonyms are words that sound a like but have different meanings and spellings.

Example: My parents like to take walks every night. Yesterday I read about a knight.

Compound Sentences Why do we combine sentences? How do we combine sentences? Do you know what we use?

Compound Sentences We combine sentences with

conjunctions. Two types:

Coordinating Conjunctions Subordinating Conjunctions

Coordinating Conjunctions These combine sentences with similar

elements These are all of the coordinating

conjunctions: And But Or So

Subordination Conjunctions These connect subordinate clauses to the

main clause These are all the subordinating conjunctions:

After Since While Although Even if Before When Until Though Even though Where as

Subordinating Conjunctions (Continued)

A subordinating clause is a smaller sentence that doesn’t make sense without the bigger sentence.

A subordinating conjunction can go at the beginning of the sentence.

Ex: They taste good. What tastes good?

Using Conjunctions Coordinating Conjunctions:

Kara likes to go to the park. Kara likes to go to the zoo. (and) Kara likes to go to the park and the zoo.

Josh wants a cookie. Josh thinks cookies taste good. (because) Josh wants a cookie because he thinks

cookies taste good.

Build your own! I/want/Coldstone ice cream /because /it/is/

delicious. I want Coldstone ice cream because it is delicious.

Coordinating

Build your own! (Continued) Since/we/left/home/we

/have/had/stop/twice. Since we left home, we have had to stop

twice. Subordinating

Review What is a homonym?

Two words that sound a like but are spelled differently and mean different things.

What is a coordinating conjunction? A word that joins sentences with similar

elements. What is a subordinating conjunction?

A word that joins two clauses, one a main clause, the other a subordinating clause.

Credits http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/

bryson.htm#list sub. (For the list of conjunctions and their definitions )

All pictures are from Microsoft Clip Art.