Complex Sentences: Main and Subordinate Clauses
PrintPrint this worksheet, clean and free, at stepsies.com.
Complex Sentences: Main and Subordinate Clauses
Complex sentences: find the main clause and the subordinate clause, choose the joining word (because, when, if, although, until), put the comma after an opening subordinate clause, and join sentences. With an answer key.
Type the answers or write with a mouse, touchpad or finger. The work stays on your device.
Your first print is free, with no sign-in. Then 10 sheets a month with a free account. Prints on Letter paper, or print on A4.
- Pages
- 2
- Last updated
- Time
- About 15 minutes
- Answer key
- Included
- Printing
- Tinted accents, also fine in black and white
- Related curriculum
-
Tell statements, questions, commands and exclamations apart, find and fix fragments and run-ons, and join ideas into compound and complex sentences with words such as and, but, because and when.
Reviewed by Mrs. Sarah Thompson, Teacher and Ms. Rachel Wilson, Teacher. How we check worksheets
How to use this sheet
- Have the child find the subject and the verb of each sentence first.
- Read each sentence aloud and ask "Does it make sense on its own?"
- For joining sentences, have the child try two conjunctions and choose the one that shows the right meaning.
Common mistakes
- Writing a fragment, such as "Because it was raining." It needs a main clause.
- Joining two sentences with only a comma. Use a conjunction, a semicolon or a period.
- Calling a long sentence a run-on. A run-on joins sentences wrongly; a long sentence can be correct.
- Putting a modifier far from the word it describes, as in "I saw a dog on the way to school with spots".
