How Do You Expand And Convert A Simple Sentence Into A Compound/Complex Sentence?
If you are home-schooling or tutoring your children, this article is for you. Nowadays the children are being encouraged to read novels and write Compound and Complex Sentences. If taught at an early age, the children will find it easy to write Compound and Complex Sentences. Teach them now. Before you teach your children how to expand a sentence, you must know some basics of the sentences. The children, when being taught, ask odd questions. Once I was asked “Why ‘C’ in cat sounds ‘k’ and ‘C’ in cell sounds ‘c’?” 1. ‘Sentence’: A group of words which makes complete sense is called a Sentence; as: a) I saw a dog. b) Tom is a good boy. b) She ate a mango. A sentence consists of two parts ‘Subject’ and ‘Predicate’. 2. ‘Subject’: The part of sentence or utterance which names the person or the thing we are speaking about is called ‘Subject’. In the above three sentences, the Subjects are: ‘I’, ‘Tom’, and ‘She’. 3. ‘Predicate’: The part of sentence which includes verb, object or phrase and t
