In Writing with Style, John Trimble suggests that teachers perpetuated the rule because they (a) learned the rule as students and never questioned its correctness; (b) wanted to stamp out informality in their pupils» writing; and (c) were focused on
teaching compound sentences where conjunctions join two independent clauses.
Not exact matches
Teach Simple and
Compound sentences with the conjunctions / connectives AND, OR, BUT, SO Easy to follow, fully editable PowerPoint.
This is a fully resourced lesson that
teaches students how to use coordinating conjunctions to combine simple
sentences and form
compound sentences.
Easy to
teach resource covering clauses, simple,
compound and complex
sentences.
Three lessons that
teach students how to recognise, punctuate and compose both simple and
compound sentences.
The
Sentence Writing Strategy is designed to
teach students how to write simple,
compound, complex, and
compound - complex
sentences (Schumaker & Sheldon, 1985).