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What is a sentence? Different Types of English Sentence Structures

A lesson explaining what a sentence is and the different types of sentence structures in English. Tasks are provided for students to identify different types of sentences. Lots of opportunity for student discussion with teacher and classmates

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What is a sentence? Different Types of English Sentence Structures

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  1. What makes a sentence? Looking at 3 sentence structures in English

  2. By the end of this session you will be able to:

  3. Take a couple of minutes to think about the questions below.

  4. Which of these are sentences?

  5. Answers

  6. A sentence….

  7. But… A clause is a group of words which contains at least a subject and a verb. In this, clauses are like sentences, and a clause may stand as a sentence if it makes sense as a complete thought. (independent clause) However, clauses are not always a complete thought and so may need to be joined with other clauses to express a complete thought, and become a sentence. (dependent clause)

  8. Find the subject, verb and object in each of the sentences below.

  9. Answers • The teacher giveshomework once a week. • Annegoes to college three times a week. • John ate his delicious chocolate cake in the college canteen.

  10. Do you know 3 sentence structures in English? iu

  11. Three sentence structures

  12. Let’s look at some sentence structures.

  13. Simple Sentence The teacher gives homework once a week. Compound Sentence Anne goes to college 3 times a week andshe likes it a lot. Complex Sentence The teacher gives homework once a week,which is every Thursday.

  14. Identify the simple, compound and complex sentences in the text below. I think London is a great city. It has lots of interesting museums. There are some beautiful parks and fantastic theatres. If you haven’t been yet, you should put it on your list of things to do! Many people from all over the world live in London, which helps make it one of the most multi-cultural cities in the world. London is a great city, but it is very expensive! This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA

  15. Answers I think London is a great city. It has lots of interesting museums. There are some beautiful parks and fantastic theatres. If you haven’t been yet, you should put it on your list of things to do! Many people from all over the world live in London, which helps make it one of the most multi-cultural cities in the world. London is a great city, but it is very expensive!

  16. Why use different sentence structures? kjg

  17. Helps… • make your writing more interesting. • you meet exam criteria. • Any other ideas?

  18. Thanks for watching!

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