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a well-constructed sentence.a well-constructed sentence.

A sentence must have

• A capital letter at the beginning.

• A . or ? or ! at the end.

What’s wrong here?

• my son and i watched aston villa last saturday

• My son and I watched Aston Villa last Saturday.

A sentence must include

• A verb (doing or being).• A subject (someone or something

to do the verb).

Is this a sentence?

• The cat sat on the mat.

• Has it got a verb? Yes - sat

• Has it got a subject? Yes - the cat

Verbs change according to when the action takes

place

• The action can be in the past, the present or the future.

• We call this the verb tense.

Verbs change according to who is

doing them

• I am• You are• He/she is• We are • You are• They are

• I was• You were• He/she was• We were• You were• They were

What’s wrong here?

• My son and I go to see Aston Villa last Saturday.

• My son and I went to see Aston Villa last Saturday.

Simple sentences

• My son and I watched Aston Villa.• We enjoyed it.

• How can you join these two sentences together?

Joining words are called connectives

• My son and I watched Aston Villa and we enjoyed it.

• It rained.

• Can you think of a connective to join this bit?

• My son and I watched Aston Villa and we enjoyed it but it rained.

• Can you think of any more words which we can use to connect up simple sentences?

Some more connectives

• I must go the shops _______ I have run out of milk.

• because

• I trusted her _______ I had only met her once.

• although

• I went to the bank ________ I went to the shops.

• before• after

• I must dash ____ I will miss the bus.

• or

• I will feel sick ___ I eat any more chocolate.

• if

• There are many more.• Using different ways to connect

sentences makes the writing more interesting.

• See how many more you can find.