Man in striped blue shirt and glasses: A sentence should open, introduce a subject, deal with that subject and then come to a conclusion.
Man in blue jumper and hat: Start, middle and end.
Man in striped blue shirt and glasses: It's the order in which you use words to convey what the meaning of what you want to say to people.
Man in black suit: An example of a sentence is this:- Area working is fundamental to our approach to improving services.
Starts with a capital A for Area at the beginning, finishes with a full stop at the end of services.
Female with grey jacket: We write sentences and messages to go with the cards that go with the flowers.
I have just written a card that says "I want to thank you so much for having me the other evening.
I am looking forward to seeing you next week."
And so I have to make sure that it's going to be grammatically correct.
The first sentence has a verb and a subject and so the verb is 'want' and the subject is 'I' and so it's important to get all this right.
Getting sentence structure right, is crucial in being able to communicate what you're trying to say in writing.
Quick tips for tutors
Sentence structure includes:
- The use of subject and verb
- Capital letters
- Full stops
- Conjunctions
- Adjectives
- Sentence punctuation
Downloadable Factsheets
Entry 1 & 2 - Sentences
An introduction to sentences.

Entry 3 - Introduction to sentence construction
An introduction to constructing sentences using full stops and capital letters.

Entry 3 - More information about sentence construction
Understanding the role of conjuctions and adjectives in sentence construction.

Level 1 - Help with sentence construction
Understanding sentence construction with the use of rules and examples.

Downloadable Worksheets
Entry 3 - Identifying sentences
Exercise in identifying complete sentences.

Entry 3 - Making sentences
Practise writing sentences.

Entry 3 - Adding words to make sentences
Exercise in adding words to make complete sentences.

Level 1 - Writing your own sentences
An activity to practise writing your own sentences.

Level 1 - Rearranging jumbled sentences
Exercise in writing complete sentences.

Level 1 - Building sentences
Exercise in writing complete sentences.



