Today’s Lesson is: Sentence Connectors By: Montaha Hawaitah April 2012

definition A connector is a word that is used to join words or sentences.

What do sentence connectors do?  They allow you to combine two separate sentences.  They make your writing flow more smoothly.

Examples Coordinating conjunctions join together clauses of equal importance. and Or but Coordinating conjunctions

Examples of how to use connectors

and O is used as a conjunction when the words are of equal importance. A boy and a girl

O Tom and Mary play basketball O A lion and a fox live in this cave O English and Math are both important.

but O is used to show a contradiction between two phrases. He ran but he missed the bus.

O She studied hard but could not score well in the test. O The hill was very high but the man could climb it easily.

or O we use ‘or’ when we need to express a choice between two words or phrases. Happy or sad

O Would you take a cup of tea or coffee? O Sit on the chair or on the table.

because O we use ‘because’ to show why something happened. The baby cried because he was sick

Watch a movie then….. O Answer the questions in your worksheet.

Online Exercises O practice 1 practice 1 O Practice 2 Practice 2

Good Luck