Combining and Expanding Sentences – Writing Practice

Five sentence pairs or short ideas serve as starting points for revision. Learners combine related information or expand a basic statement, choosing adjectives and adverbs as well as more precise nouns and verbs. Because wording can vary, the work emphasizes richer expression and logical sentence construction rather than one fixed response. A second page offers completed possibilities for checking while recognizing that other well-formed revisions may also succeed.

Grades: Grades 1–4
File type: PDF
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Updated Jul 11, 2021

Subject: Grammar, ELA
Topic: Parts of Speech, Expanded Sentences Worksheets
Resource types: Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
Preparation: Print ready

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This Combining and Expanding Sentences Worksheet is a great way for students to connect and rewrite sentences using a conjunction. This is a great way to help students improve their writing skills.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Combine related ideas into a coherent sentence
Expand a basic statement with relevant descriptive detail
Choose more specific nouns and verbs during revision

Teaching tips

Ask learners to explain what information from each original idea remains in the revision.
Treat the completed page as one set of possibilities and discuss other grammatically sound responses.

Skills covered

Sentence combining — learners connect related clauses or ideas
Elaboration — learners add purposeful modifiers
Word choice — learners strengthen nouns and verbs without changing meaning

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Combining sentences
Sentence expansion

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