Begin With Subordinating

Worksheet Description

The Expanding Sentences worksheet provides an exercise in complex sentence construction by using subordinating conjunctions. Each of the nine sentences on the worksheet is incomplete and is accompanied by a subordinating conjunction in parentheses. Students are instructed to expand these simple sentences by adding a subordinate clause that begins with the given conjunction. This task is aimed at enhancing students’ understanding of how subordinating conjunctions function to connect ideas within a sentence.

The worksheet is designed to teach students how to use subordinating conjunctions to create complex sentences, which are composed of a main clause and a subordinate clause. By specifying the conjunction to be used, it guides students in exploring different types of relationships between clauses, such as cause and effect, time, condition, and contrast. This exercise helps students practice writing more nuanced and detailed sentences. It also reinforces the importance of clause combination in crafting sentences that are both grammatically correct and rich in content.