AC9E4LA06 Year 4 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 4 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

understand that complex sentences contain one independent clause and at least one dependent clause typically joined by a subordinating conjunction to create relationships, such as time and causality

Elaborations

• 1 creating richer, more specific descriptions by using adjectival clauses; for example, “Crossing the mountain range was difficult.” becomes “The mountain pass which had received days of heavy rain was dangerous.”
• 2 creating more precise and detailed sentences by adding adverbial clauses; for example, “They crossed the mountain range.” becomes “Although the path was overgrown, they crossed the mountain range.”

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