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Compound Sentences: Joining Two Ideas with a Comma and a Joining Word

  • Grade 3
  • English Language Arts
  • 1 min 6 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC3-EN-18

A four-sentence passage about a hike is shown first as choppy simple sentences, each tagged with a "stop", and then rewritten as two compound sentences, with the pattern "simple sentence, joining word simple sentence" built beside it in matching colours. The video lights up "but" and "so" in the examples, flashes the comma that goes before the joining word, shows that each half could still stand alone, and ends on the recap that a compound sentence is two simple sentences joined by a comma and a joining word.

Concept: Compound sentences

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The question this lesson answers

What is a compound sentence, and how does it help your writing flow?

Here is a short passage from a story about a hike.

Transcript

What the lesson says

What is a compound sentence, and how does it help your writing flow?

Here is a short passage from a story about a hike.

Four simple sentences in a row sound choppy, because the reader stops at every period.

A compound sentence joins two simple sentences that could each stand alone.

You join them with a comma and a joining word: and, but, or, so.

Now let us join the sentences that belong together.

In the first sentence, but joins the two ideas and shows a contrast.

In the second sentence, so joins them and shows a result.

The comma goes right before the joining word.

Each half is still a simple sentence, so it could stand alone.

Now the ideas flow together, and the link between them is clear.

A compound sentence is two simple sentences joined by a comma and a joining word.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 3

English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: sentence structureBC3-EN-18

Previous: Word Families: Same Ending, New First SoundNext: Capital Letters and End Marks

British Columbia, Grade 6

English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: sentence structure and grammarBC6-EN-22

Previous: Canadian and American Spelling: Two Ways, Both CorrectNext: Complex Sentences: Joining an Independent Clause to a Dependent Clause

British Columbia, Grade 7

English Language Arts, Language features, structures, and conventions: syntax and sentence fluencyBC7-EN-26

Previous: Simple Sentences: One Subject, One Verb, One Complete ThoughtNext: Complex Sentences: Joining an Independent Clause to a Dependent Clause

This lesson is also listed in Grade 6 and Grade 7.

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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