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Understand Different Ways of Linking Clauses

In this worksheet, students will work to understand the use of conjunctions.

'Understand Different Ways of Linking Clauses' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 3

Year:  Year 8 English worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Grammar and Vocabulary

Curriculum subtopic:   Extend and Apply Grammatical Knowledge

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Worksheet Overview

When you are writing, using the correct grammar is very important. 

 

This is because written English needs clarity to ensure it is understood. 

 

Grammar covers a whole list of things in your writing: tenses, sentence structure, modal verbs, conjunctions, word class, paragraphs... and it all needs to be considered when writing. 

 

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In this activity, you will be looking at conjunctions. These are words whose job in a sentence is to link; think of them as a chain, keeping two things together. 

 

Conjunctions can be coordinating - they balance, or coordinate, two parts of a sentence. These are often referred to with the acronym FANBOYS.

 

For

And

Nor

But

Or

Yet

So

 

There are also correlative conjunctions, which show a relation between two things.

For example:

 

Either...or...

Neither...nor...

 

You probably know lots of conjunctions already, so let's get started on some questions!

 

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