Combining Pairs

Worksheet Description

This worksheet is designed to help students understand and practice forming complex sentences. A complex sentence comprises an independent clause, which is the main idea, and one or more dependent clauses, which provide additional, less crucial information. The worksheet gives directions on using subordinating conjunctions to connect an independent clause with a dependent clause. It presents five sentences that students are instructed to combine into complex sentences using the provided conjunctions.

The aim of the worksheet is to teach students how to construct complex sentences correctly by using subordinating conjunctions. It emphasizes the role of the independent clause as the main statement and the dependent clause as the supplementary information. Through specific examples, students are guided to enhance simple sentences into more sophisticated and detailed ones. The worksheet also reinforces the concept that the dependent clause is introduced by a conjunction, which is crucial to the structure of a complex sentence.