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Building Simple Sentences

Building Simple Sentences. Each coloured brick represents a different part of a sentence. Subject. Verb. Object. With just two or three of these starting blocks, you can make simple sentences, such as:. The girl. Fido. her hair. brushed. barked. or.

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Building Simple Sentences

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  1. Building Simple Sentences Each coloured brick represents a different part of a sentence. Subject Verb Object With just two or three of these starting blocks, you can make simple sentences, such as: The girl Fido her hair. brushed barked. or Let’s practise making some simple sentences together.

  2. Building SV and SVO Sentences Using just two or three of the bricks below, how many different SV and SVO sentences can you make? or fourlollies anoctopus herfinger twelvestories onetreat QueenAnne Threedogs Mostshops The trees Mydad A kitten George Linda a ball the food stole kicked wrote read chewed bit prepared cooked a meal Share one of your simple sentences with a friend. Does it contain the correct combination of building blocks?

  3. Those Pesky Determiners Before we go any further with improving our simple sentences, we need to talk about determiners. Determiners are words that come before a noun. They introduce the noun and give the reader important information about it. Some examples are: the her an two my trees dogs dad finger octopus

  4. Improving Simple Sentences Once you have a simple sentence, you can use other bricks to make it more interesting to the reader. Why not add an adjective to describe any nouns or pronouns in the sentence? This will turn a simple sentence such as... The her adjective girl little curly The girl hair. brushed brushed her hair. ... into a sentence like: When you use an adjective to describe a noun, the adjective sneaks between the determiner and the noun.

  5. Sneaky Adjectives Can you think of adjectives to describe the nouns below and sneak them in between the determiner and the noun? tasty delicious sturdy strong grey humongous towering bushy Click here to reveal some cheeky little helpers if you get stuck. The Four The Some trees ? elephant ? sweets castles ? ? Talk to your partner. Could I add more than one adjective between the determiner and the noun?

  6. Slightly Exciting Sentences Can you include an adjective between every noun and its determiner to make these sentences a little bit more exciting? are watching footballmatch. five The a some A Two ate bread. ducks clown boys juggled balls.

  7. Adding a Little More Excitement Once you’ve added adjectives to describe the nouns, why not add an adverb to describe the verb? Think about how the action is happening and include an adverb to give the reader more information. her The The her adverb curly girl curly girl little little hair. hair. carefully brushed brushed An adverb usually goes before the verb that it describes.

  8. Awesome Adverbs Can you think of adverbs to describe the verbs below? Can you think of more than one adverb which could go with each verb? happily angrily quickly crossly carefully neatly dangerously bravely ? ? ? ? ? ? ran walked wrote cut jumped smiled Click here to reveal some cheeky little helpers if you get stuck.

  9. Slightly More Exciting Sentences Can you include an adverb in these sentences to make them even more exciting? a My her the Some Tired mum lovely dirty delicious playful orange Anita boys leaves. hands. Sandwich.. ate washed kicked

  10. Spicing Things Up! Now let’s take it one step further by adding a fronted adverbial. A fronted adverbial is a word, phrase or clause at the beginning of a sentence to give more information about the action. They are always followed by a comma. fronted adverbial her The her The girl little curly girl little curly hair. hair. carefully carefully brushed brushed In themorning

  11. Adding Amazing Adverbials Can you start these sentences with a fronted adverbial to give the reader more information about when, where, how or howoften the action took place? the the our many his circus seagulls Jakub small soggy new shy breadcrumbs. town. school. nervously hungrily sadly started pecked left exciting noisy

  12. It’s Getting Hot in Here! Your sentences are getting mighty spicy! Let’s turn up the heat even further by using a conjunction to add another clause. Use a co-ordinating or subordinating conjunction to add another clause to your sentence which will give the reader all the information they need to fully understand what is happening. conjunction and clause the her the her girl little curly hair. carefully brushed curly brushed carefully girl hair little In themorning, because it was tangled. In themorning,

  13. Cracking Conjunctions Can you add a co-ordinating or subordinating conjunction to these sentences to give the reader extra information about the action? Obviouslyangry, Completelyexhausted, Suddenly, echoedin the the their the the wooden massive sodden slammed hiked to scarily slowly firmly campers Salim noise tents door cave mysterious weary frustrated

  14. Building Sentences Let’s look at how our sentence has changed just by adding a few different bricks. We started off with... the her The girl her hair. brushed curly brushed carefully girl hair little ...and have transformed it into: because it was tangled. In themorning, Why is the second sentence better? Which would a reader enjoy more? Why?

  15. Scorching Sentences Can you transform this boring sentence in just three minutes? Use the building blocks below to help you. fronted adverbial Everyday, so that his bones stayed strong. conjunctionand clause some milk. the some determiner The boy drank adjective fresh drank verb hurriedly adverb subject boy milk object clever start stop

  16. Scorching Sentences Can you transform this boring sentence in just three minutes? Use the building blocks below to help you. fronted adverbial Eachmorning, because he had nothing else to do. conjunctionand clause determiner the Simon the TV. watched ancient adjective verb watched silently adverb subject Simon object TV bored start stop

  17. Scorching Sentences Can you transform this boring sentence in just three minutes? Use the building blocks below to help you. fronted adverbial Heroically, as his life was in danger. conjunctionand clause determiner the Samson the lion. attacked ferocious adjective verb attacked bravely adverb subject Samson object lion fearless start stop

  18. Scorching Sentences Can you transform this boring sentence in just three minutes? Use the building blocks below to help you. fronted adverbial After school, so she could see how her class had done. conjunctionand clause the determiner the the books. The teacher marked thick adjective verb marked carefully adverb subject teacher object books dedicated start stop

  19. Start Building Can you write sentences which will fit with the following patterns of bricks? fronted adverbial conjunctionand clause determiner adjective verb adverb subject object

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