This set of worksheets helps students enhance their sentences by incorporating dependent clauses that add details about time, place, cause or condition. Through a mix of matching, adding clauses, identifying clause types and sentence creation, these worksheets guide students to construct more engaging and descriptive complex sentences.

How to Complete

1. Section 1: Students match independent clauses with dependent clauses to form meaningful complex sentences.
2. Section 2: They complete sentences by adding appropriate dependent clauses.
3. Section 3: They highlight dependent clauses in given sentences and label them by the type of detail they add (time, place, cause or condition).
4. Section 4: Finally, students write their own complex sentences using specific prompts and conjunctions.

Additional Tips

1. Demonstrate how dependent clauses enhance a sentence by providing additional information. Use simple before-and-after examples to show the impact.
2. Remind students that subordinating conjunctions help signal the relationship between the clauses.
3. For the final question, prompt students to write sentences about topics they enjoy, such as sports, hobbies or imaginary adventures.

Extension Ideas

1. Dependent Clause Hunt: Provide a paragraph from a book or story and have students identify and label all dependent clauses.
2. Creative Story Writing: Challenge students to write a short story using at least five complex sentences with different types of details (time, place, cause and condition).

The resource is part of our Year 4 English Unit: Complex Sentences & Conjunctions.