Starting sentences with 'and'

Starting sentences with 'and'

warning

These resources will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Switch to our new teaching resources now - designed by teachers and leading subject experts, and tested in classrooms.

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will develop understanding of capital letters and introduce prepositions. We will then apply that knowledge in a piece of creative writing.

Licence

This content is made available by Oak National Academy Limited and its partners and licensed under Oak’s terms & conditions (Collection 1), except where otherwise stated.

Loading...

5 Questions

Q1.
Which of these sentences are correct?
There is a terrible accident yesterday.
there was a terrible accident Yesterday.
Correct answer: There was a terrible accident yesterday.
There were a terrible accident yesterday.
Q2.
Which of these is a fused sentence?
Correct answer: He bought her flowers she sent the flowers back.
He made her a birthday present. He bought her chocolate.
Tom loved Ellie. Ellie did not love Tom.
Tom was angry and sad.
Q3.
Which word should have a capital letter?
is
it
Correct answer: january
unfortunately
Q4.
Which of these sentences is an incomplete sentence?
Aaron lost his phone.
Sally drank a smoothie.
Correct answer: She an ice cream.
The team played badly.
Q5.
Which sentence is correct?
He went to the cinema. and he went to the gym.
He went to the cinema. And he went to the gym.
He went to the cinema. And He went to the gym.
Correct answer: He went to the cinema. He went to the gym.

Lesson appears in

UnitEnglish / Complex sentences, avoiding fragments and run-ons, capital letters

English