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Writing Skills Practice

Improve short sentences, continue sentence starters and spot or write subordinate clauses. For open-ended tasks, the answer shown is one possible example.

Make sentences more vivid

Rewrite each sentence to make its meaning clearer and more interesting. Add precise details or stronger vocabulary.

1.Rewrite this sentence with a vivid verb and a detail: The cat moved.

2.Make this sentence more precise by adding a detail about what Ellis bought and how he felt: Ellis visited the food bank.

3.Improve this sentence by replacing “nice” with a more exact word and adding a detail: The event was nice.

4.Combine these ideas into one clear sentence: Sophie sorted the tins. Sophie checked the dates.

Continue the sentence starters

Finish each starter as a complete sentence. Use punctuation and make each ending different.

5.Continue the starter to make a complete sentence: In the busy hall,

6.Continue the starter to make a complete sentence: Without hesitation,

7.Continue the starter to make a complete sentence: After the delivery arrived,

8.Continue the starter to make a complete sentence: As the doors opened,

Subordinate clause detectives

A subordinate clause adds information but cannot make a complete sentence on its own. It often begins with a word such as because, when, if, although or while.

9.Which words form the subordinate clause in this sentence? The volunteers smiled because the delivery was on time.

10.Which words form the subordinate clause in this sentence? When the last box was unpacked, Sophie swept the floor.

11.Which words form the subordinate clause in this sentence? Oscar kept sorting tins although he felt tired.

12.Complete the sentence with a subordinate clause beginning with “because”: The label was hard to read .

13.Complete the sentence with a subordinate clause beginning with “when”: , the volunteers took a short break.

14.Complete the sentence with a subordinate clause beginning with “although”: , Ellis thanked the helpers.

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