Make It Compound

Worksheet Description

The Expanding Sentences worksheet provides students with an exercise in constructing compound sentences. The task involves taking simple sentences and expanding them by adding a new independent clause with the help of a conjunction. A list of conjunctions is given at the top of the page, and students are required to use each conjunction only once, ensuring a variety of compound sentences are created. The activity encourages students to think about how different ideas can be connected to provide more complex and informative statements.

This worksheet is designed to teach students the use of conjunctions to join two independent clauses, thus forming compound sentences. It introduces them to coordinating conjunctions such as “and,” “but,” “yet,” “so,” “for,” and “nor.” By completing this exercise, students learn how to vary their sentence structures, making their writing more engaging and nuanced. The worksheet also helps students understand the importance of sentence variety in writing and the different relationships between clauses that conjunctions can signify.