Making Your Writing Flow: Conjunctions
English: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 2.4.9
Making Your Writing Flow with Conjunctions
You want your writing to 'flow' and not sound boring. We call this having cohesion.
Conjunctions
- You could use conjunctions to help your writing flow.
- Conjunctions are joining words.
Example without conjunctions
- Johnny is old. Johnny cannot walk very fast. Johnny is always late.
- These sentences sound very stop-start.
- But adding conjunctions makes the sentences flow a lot better...
Example with conjunctions
- Johnny is old, so he cannot walk fast and is always late.
Test yourself on Making Your Writing Flow: Conjunctions
What could we replace the full stops with to make these sentences flow more easily?
Abbie likes dogs. She also likes cats. She even likes frogs!What are conjunctions?
Which sentence uses conjunctions?