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Grade 5 English Language Arts · Level 4, Grammar & Sentence Craft

Connect Ideas with Conjunctions

Use coordinating, correlative, and subordinating conjunctions to express clear relationships between ideas.

How the lesson starts: Connect Ideas with Conjunctions

  1. Twin-tower bridges

    Bodhi is a beaver engineer who builds bridges between ideas. His favorite bridges have twin towers. When you see the first tower, you must build its partner.

  2. Twin towers

    Some conjunctions come in pairs. Either goes with or. Neither goes with nor. Both goes with and. Not only goes with but also. Each first word has one partner.

  3. Let's build one

    Not only Mia blank Theo cleaned the dam. The first tower is not only. Its partner is but also. Not only Mia but also Theo cleaned the dam. Watch out: neither goes with nor, never or!