CAMBRIDGE LOWER SECONDARY ENGLISH 7: WORKSHEET 2B

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Worksheet 2B
1 Insert conjunctions to create a compound, complex and compound-complex sentences.
Compound sentence:
The driver was using a phone ___________________ the car hit a tree ___________________
nobody was hurt.
Complex sentence:
The driver was using a phone ___________________ the car hit a tree ___________________
nobody was hurt.
Compound-complex sentence:
The driver was using a phone ___________________ the car hit a tree ___________________
nobody was hurt.

2 Find the conjunctions listed in the word box in the paragraph below. Cross them off in the box
and the paragraph as you find them. Then rewrite the paragraph using only simple sentences.

but after and and and when when because but so but

I walked to the bike shop today because yesterday I punctured a tyre and I needed to buy a
repair kit. The shop was closed when I got there and I had to wait outside for half an hour. I
did know it opened later, but my mind was on other things and I remembered when I saw the
closed sign on the shop door. I went back home after I bought the repair kit, but I’d come out
without my keys so I was locked out. I was really distracted today! My next-door neighbour
had a spare key, but he was away on holiday.

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3 The conjunctions ‘as’, ‘that’, ‘but’, ‘because’, ‘and’, ‘when’ and ‘and’ have been removed
from this paragraph (they are not in order). No spaces have been left to show you where
the conjunctions were removed. Rewrite the paragraph using the conjunctions from the
box to create compound-complex sentences.

that and and when as but because

The Pear Tree

Directly behind our hut we had an old pear tree. It grew beautiful pears ripened in late
August you could go on picking them for the next month or so. Some of the branches of
the tree hung right over the top of our hut the wind blew the pears down at night they often
landed on our roof. I would hear them going thud … bump … thud … bump above my head
I lay under my blankets, those bumps and thuds never scared me I knew it was only the
pears from our very own tree.

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