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Homonyms and Compound Sentences
Fourth Grade English
Homonyms Homonyms are words that sound alike
but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
An example of this is night and knight.
Night
Knight
HomonymsThis week’s spelling list focuses on
homonyms.List:
Sail Sale Write Right
Spelling List Bear Bare Tale Tail
How do I know its the right word? To figure out if the homonym is the right
word: Ask yourself if it makes sense Check the Word Wall Ask a table mate. And if all else fails:
Ask the teacher
Homonyms and Grammar I need to right a paragraph.
Is this wrong? YES! The correct answer is: write.
We saw a picture of a bare in science class today. Is this wrong?
YES! The correct answer is: bear
That man told a long tale. Is this wrong?
NO!
Build your own! I/like/play/with/dog’s/ (tail or tale).
I like to play with the dog’s tail. We/spotted/(sail or sale)/near/the dock/
yesterday. We spotted a sail near the dock yesterday
Review of Homonyms What is a homonym?
Homonyms are words that sound a like but have different meanings and spellings.
Example: My parents like to take walks every night. Yesterday I read about a knight.
Compound Sentences Why do we combine sentences? How do we combine sentences? Do you know what we use?
Compound Sentences We combine sentences with
conjunctions. Two types:
Coordinating Conjunctions Subordinating Conjunctions
Coordinating Conjunctions These combine sentences with similar
elements These are all of the coordinating
conjunctions: And But Or So
Subordination Conjunctions These connect subordinate clauses to the
main clause These are all the subordinating conjunctions:
After Since While Although Even if Before When Until Though Even though Where as
Subordinating Conjunctions (Continued)
A subordinating clause is a smaller sentence that doesn’t make sense without the bigger sentence.
A subordinating conjunction can go at the beginning of the sentence.
Ex: They taste good. What tastes good?
Using Conjunctions Coordinating Conjunctions:
Kara likes to go to the park. Kara likes to go to the zoo. (and) Kara likes to go to the park and the zoo.
Josh wants a cookie. Josh thinks cookies taste good. (because) Josh wants a cookie because he thinks
cookies taste good.
Build your own! I/want/Coldstone ice cream /because /it/is/
delicious. I want Coldstone ice cream because it is delicious.
Coordinating
Build your own! (Continued) Since/we/left/home/we
/have/had/stop/twice. Since we left home, we have had to stop
twice. Subordinating
Review What is a homonym?
Two words that sound a like but are spelled differently and mean different things.
What is a coordinating conjunction? A word that joins sentences with similar
elements. What is a subordinating conjunction?
A word that joins two clauses, one a main clause, the other a subordinating clause.
Credits http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/
bryson.htm#list sub. (For the list of conjunctions and their definitions )
All pictures are from Microsoft Clip Art.