AC9E7LA05

Language for expressing and developing ideas

understand how complex and compound-complex sentences can be used to elaborate, extend and explain ideas

Elaborations

AC9E7LA05_E1identifying and experimenting with a range of clause structures and discussing the effect of these in the expression and development of ideas
AC9E7LA05_E2consolidating knowledge of simple, compound and complex sentences, recognising that a simple sentence can express sophisticated ideas and a complex sentence need not express “complex” ideas
AC9E7LA05_E3examining the addition of ideas using a complex-compound sentence; for example, “When dinosaurs roamed the earth, weather patterns shifted significantly and as a result vegetation depleted.”