Write Short Compound Sentences

A sentence is a group of words with a capital letter and full stop and it needs to make sense.

This sentence does not make sense:

Pirates three there are.

We can change the words to make sure it makes sense.

A sentence also needs a capital letter at the start and a full stop at the end.

There are three pirates.

We can make it a longer sentence, which is called a compound sentence, by adding a joining word.

Can you see where we added the joining word? The joining word is and.

There are three pirates and they have a ship.

We started with the two simple sentences below and took away the full stop and inserted the joining word and.

There are three pirates.  They have a ship.

Let's have a go at some questions to practise writing a sentence.

You can practise choosing a word to complete a sentence, making sure the sentence makes sense and using capital letters and full stops correctly.