Connectors and an introduction to complex meaning

About Standards
Introduction
UNIVERSAL
Middle years and up
connectors
connectives
cohesive devices
compound sentences
complex sentences
conveying relationships
sentence construction
language about language
metalanguage
timing
manner
cause and effect
concession
conditions
expressive punctuation
grammar
conjunctions
comparison
opposition
causality
coordinating connectors
subordinating connectors
expressive punctuation
nested clauses
Purpose
Understand how connectors create relationships between events, and use a variety of connectors to control meaning.
Description
In this lesson, we explore how 'simple sentences' can be joined together with connectors to create complex meaning. We look at different kinds of meaning—time, manner, cause and effect, concession, and conditions. We also see some examples of expressive punctuation, and introduce the idea of nested clauses.
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