More independent clauses!

This week, we have been continuing to deepen our understanding of verbs, subjects and how together they make a full independent clause. We have now begun to consider what happens when there are any other parts to the sentence (in this case, we are calling them leftovers, but we know that these may be adverbials, or they may add more to the noun).

Today, we have been working together to analyse the words in front of us by identifying the verbs and the subjects before deciding which clause any leftovers belong too. To help us, we use the questions shown here in our success criteria. 

• What’s the first verb?
• Who (verb) /what (verb)?
• So, …is the subject.
• What’s the next verb?
• Who (verb) /what (verb)?
• So, …is the subject.
• Have we labelled everything?
• No! That’s because we have some leftovers
• Do the ‘leftovers’ belong to the red clause or the blue clause?
• Tell me when …stops…
• So, what am I going to place here?
• Because it's a full independent clause with a subject and a verb, I place a full stop at the end and then go back and add a capital letter.