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Our wonderful Year 6 Grammar Group have some top tips for you on how to write a perfect sentence!
Firstly, they will tell you what a sentence must have:
- A capital letter to start the first word,
- A full stop to end the sentence (or a ? or !)
- A verb (a doing word)
- A subject (someone or something that is doing the action)
To improve your sentence and make it more exciting, you could use:
- Adverbs
- A variety of nouns
- A fronted adverbial
- Conjunctions
- Adjectives
- A subordinate clause
- Interesting punctuation, such as; commas, speechmarks, brackets, dashes, a hyphen and a colon or semi-colon
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St. Clare's Class also had a try at improving my boring sentence. Here is the result:
The cat sat on the mat.
The cat sat daintily on the mat.
The cat sat daintily on the soft mat.
The fluffy cat sat daintily on the soft mat.
The fluffy cat sat daintily on the soft, dirty mat.
As dawn broke, the fluffy cat sat daintily on the soft, dirty mat.
As dawn broke, the fluffy cat, who was exhausted, sat daintily on the soft, dirty mat.
As dawn broke, the fluffy cat, who was exhausted, collapsed onto the soft, dirty mat.
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Challenge!
Can you do better? Leave a comment below to show us what you can do! We will pick a winner next week!
Improve Mrs Parrott's boring sentence:
'The cat sat on the mat.'
As morning broke, the ginger, fury cat dropped lazily on to the wrecked mat.
ReplyDeleteAt the crack of dawn,the pitch black Cat slouched down onto the comfy mat
ReplyDeleteWhile his sumptuous dinner of kippers was being served, the gracious feline stood to attention on the ancient rug.
ReplyDeleteBy Bert Brown
When the clock stroke 12, the fat ginger cat slept dreamly on the mat after a loverly lunch.
ReplyDeleteThe impossibly beautiful, blue-black feline being, reclined gracefully upon an exguisitely woven mat direct from the orieut.
ReplyDeleteAt the crack of dawn, the ginger coloured cat, who had just woke up, quickly leapt, out of bed and sat comfortably on the mat.
ReplyDeleteDanny Opiah
As the sun rised, the sleek black cat perched on its fluffy mat.
ReplyDelete