Independent Joins Dependent
About the Independent Joins Dependent Lesson
Summary
An introductory or review lesson about subordinating conjunctions and how to use them, and a review of independent and dependent clauses.
Objectives
• to teach and explain the function of subordinating conjunctions;
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to provide a list of common subordinating conjunctions;
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to test students? knowledge and understanding through appropriate exercises.
Suggested Grades
4th Grade
5th Grade
6th Grade
7th Grade
Excerpt
Conjunctions join words, phrases and clauses together in a sentence. Some common conjunctions are and, but, and or. There are three types of conjunctions:
1. coordinating
2. subordinating
3. correlative
Coordinating conjunctions join equal parts together: words with words, phrases with phrases, and clauses with clauses.
Correlative conjunctions are used in pairs - for instance either/or.
Subordinating conjunctions are used to join a dependent clause to an independent clause. They join unequal parts.
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