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Simple, compound, adverbial and relative complex sentences

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Why this, why now

In this unit, pupils learn a new sentence structure: the relative complex sentence. In so doing, they learn a new comma rule for how to embed a relative clause within a main clause. Pupils revise main and adverbial clauses and phrases as well as simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences.

Prior knowledge requirements

  • Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
  • Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
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Simple, compound, adverbial and relative complex sentences

In this unit, pupils learn a new sentence structure: the relative complex sentence. In so doing, they learn a new comma rule for how to embed a relative clause within a main clause. Pupils revise main and adverbial clauses and phrases as well as simple, compound and adverbial complex sentences.

7 lessons
  1. A new subordinate clause: the relative clause
  2. Comma rules in three sentence types
  3. A new sentence structure: the relative complex sentence
  4. Two types of conjunction
  5. Using the comma rules with relative complex sentences
  6. Three sentence types
  7. Two types of clause, including subordinate clauses