Complex sentences give Grade 6 ELA students focused practice identifying independent and dependent clauses, choosing subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns, and revising fragments into complete sentences. This language resource supports sentence construction and revision within an Ontario framework.

Build Stronger Sentence Structure

Students examine how independent and dependent clauses work together in complex sentences. They identify the role of each clause, select appropriate subordinating conjunctions and relative pronouns to connect ideas, and apply these choices when constructing complete sentences.

Practice the Skills in Context

• Identify independent clauses in complex sentences
• Identify dependent clauses and their role in sentence structure
• Choose subordinating conjunctions to combine ideas
• Select relative pronouns when connecting ideas
• Revise sentence fragments into complete complex sentences

The worksheet includes multiple-choice questions, true-or-false questions, short-answer responses, a reading passage, matching, a cloze passage, an essay, and a “Did You Know?” section. The varied activities give students opportunities to recognize sentence structures, make grammatical choices, and apply complex sentence concepts in written responses.

A Practical Language Lesson Resource

Use this complex sentences practice for direct language instruction, guided classroom work, independent practice, review, or sentence-revision activities. It can help students focus on clause identification before moving into combining ideas and correcting incomplete sentence structures.

Student and Teacher Support

• Student Notes & Lesson Summary supplement provides students with an additional reference for the lesson.
• Teacher Guide is provided as a separate PDF with Learning Objectives, Teaching Tips, Discussion Questions, and Common Mistakes.

The supporting materials give teachers a practical way to introduce and reinforce independent clauses, dependent clauses, subordinating conjunctions, relative pronouns, and complete complex sentences while providing guidance for discussion and common areas of difficulty.