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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.'
