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Combining and Expanding Sentences – Writing Practice

Five writing prompts develop more complex sentences by combining or expanding ideas with adjectives, adverbs, specific nouns, and stronger verbs.
Grades
Grades 1–4, Elementary
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Updated Jul 11, 2021

Subject
ELA, Grammar
Topic
Parts of Speech, expanded sentences worksheets
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Worksheets & Printables, Worksheets
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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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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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