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Sentences - Simplified

Help the organisers of a neighbourhood picnic make their signs and messages easy to read. Read each task carefully. Use a capital letter to begin a sentence and the correct punctuation to finish it.

Spot a complete sentence

A complete sentence tells a complete idea. It usually starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, question mark or exclamation mark.

1.Which picnic message is a complete sentence with correct punctuation?

bring your hat
Bring your hat.
Bring your hat
bring your hat!

2.Choose the complete sentence. Think about whether it tells who or what and what happened.

The red picnic rug
A magpie swooped down.
Under the shady tree
Running to the oval

3.Add the missing capital letter and full stop: the sandwiches are in the basket

4.Fix the capital letter and punctuation in this question for the picnic notice: where is the water

Build and join ideas

A sentence needs to make sense on its own. Joining words such as and, but and then can connect ideas.

5.Which group of words needs more information before it is a complete sentence?

The children packed the fruit.
A small green frog
We played a game.
The picnic ended at noon.

6.Finish the sentence fragment with your own words: The small green frog _____.

7.Join these ideas with and: Lachlan brought apples. Lachlan brought pears.

8.Join these ideas with but: The sky looked cloudy. The picnic stayed dry.

9.Choose the best joining word: We finished lunch, _____ we packed the basket.

then
but
because

10.Write two complete sentences about something you might do at a picnic. Begin each sentence with a capital letter and finish it with suitable punctuation. You may join ideas using and, but or then.