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Today’s Lesson is:. Sentence Connectors By: Montaha Hawaitah April 2012. definition. A connector is a word that is used to join words or sentences. What do sentence connectors do?. They allow you to combine two separate sentences. They make your writing flow more smoothly. Examples.
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Today’s Lesson is: Sentence Connectors By: MontahaHawaitah April 2012
definition A connector is a word that is used to join words or sentences.
What do sentence connectors do? • They allow you to combine two separate sentences. • They make your writing flow more smoothly.
Examples and Or but Coordinating conjunctions join together clauses of equal importance. Coordinating conjunctions
and • is used as a conjunction when the words are of equal importance. A boy and a girl
Tom and Mary play basketball • A lion and a fox live in this cave • English and Math are both important.
but • is used to show a contradiction between two phrases. He ran but he missed the bus.
She studied hard but could not score well in the test. • The hill was very high but the man could climb it easily.
or • we use ‘or’ when we need to express a choice between two words or phrases. Happy or sad
Would you take a cup of tea or coffee? • Sit on the chair or on the table.
because • we use ‘because’ to show why something happened. The baby cried because he was sick
Watch a movie then….. • Answer the questions in your worksheet.
Online Exercises • practice 1 • Practice 2