SENTENCE STRUCTURES

WORKSHEET FOUR – COMPLEX SENTENCES.

TASK 1: Using the TWELVE SENTENCES below, adapt them and write
SIX COMPLEX SENTENCES. THREE sentences should have the
SUBORDINATE CLAUSES beginning the sentences (you need to
create these clauses from the independent clauses below), and
THREE sentences open with MAIN CLAUSES. Use the dependency
marker wordbank to help you if you need

AS BECAUSE ALTHOUGH DUE TO THE FACT THAT

WHILE NOW THAT SINCE FOLLOWING BEFORE

1 The whole family went to the beach for the afternoon.

2 The interval came earlier than everyone expected.
3 Silence pervaded the dark auditorium of the cinema.
4 He was a lifelong fan of science fiction.
5 Dave asked his dad for a driving lesson.
6 The sun pelted down and grew hotter by the hour.
7 Dave insisted on going to see the latest Star Trek movie.
8 Jenny and Peter had time to grab and eat two ice-creams each.
9 Peter fed the cows and the chickens.
10 The ushers shone their torches from left to right.
11 He was finally eighteen.
12 Jenny fed her rabbits.

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WORKSHEET FOUR Page 2 – COMPLEX SENTENCES

TASK 2: Write SIX complex sentences with each sentence

drawn from any one of the following reasons:

Time Possibility Ability Probability Eventuality

Inevitability Plausibility Causality

Example: (Plausibility/believability) – I could only ever

believe that Dave was an architect if I managed to see a
piece of paper stating his qualification to be so.

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