Transcript Sentence Structure and grammar

Grammar is
a well-constructed sentence.
A sentence must have
• A capital letter at the beginning.
• A . or ? or ! at the end.
What’s wrong here?
• my son and i watched aston villa last
saturday
• My son and I watched Aston Villa last
Saturday.
A sentence must include
• A verb (doing or being).
• A subject (someone or something to
do the verb).
Is this a sentence?
• The cat sat on the mat.
• Has it got a verb?
Yes - sat
• Has it got a subject?
Yes - the cat
Verbs change according to
when the action takes place
• The action can be in the past, the
present or the future.
• We call this the verb tense.
Verbs change according
to who is doing them
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I am
You are
He/she is
We are
You are
They are
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I was
You were
He/she was
We were
You were
They were
What’s wrong here?
• My son and I go to see Aston Villa last
Saturday.
• My son and I went to see Aston Villa
last Saturday.
Simple sentences
• My son and I watched Aston Villa.
• We enjoyed it.
• How can you join these two sentences
together?
Joining words are called
connectives
• My son and I watched Aston Villa and
we enjoyed it.
• It rained.
• Can you think of a connective to join
this bit?
• My son and I watched Aston Villa and
we enjoyed it but it rained.
• Can you think of any more words
which we can use to connect up
simple sentences?
Some more connectives
• I must go the shops _______ I have
run out of milk.
• because
• I trusted her _______ I had only
met her once.
• although
• I went to the bank ________ I
went to the shops.
• before
• after
• I must dash ____ I will miss the bus.
• or
• I will feel sick ___ I eat any more
chocolate.
• if
• There are many more.
• Using different ways to connect
sentences makes the writing more
interesting.
• See how many more you can find.