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Sentence Expansion Practice

A worksheet for 6th-grade students to practice expanding simple sentences using adverbs, adjectives, and prepositional phrases.

Grade 6 ELA WritingWriting Organization and StructureSentence Expansion
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2 Short AnswerFill in the BlanksMatching

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.1.ECCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.4

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ELAWritingSentence StructureGrade 6
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Sentence Expansion Practice

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Read each simple sentence. Then, expand the sentence by adding descriptive words (adjectives and adverbs) and phrases (prepositional phrases) to make it more interesting and detailed.

1. The dog barked.

2. The cat slept.

3. Birds sang.

Fill in the blanks with an appropriate adjective or adverb to expand the sentence.

1. The   car drove   down the street.

2. She sang   a   song.

3. The   student worked   on the project.

Match each prepositional phrase to the sentence that it best expands.

1. The boy ran.

 

a. with great enthusiasm

2. The book fell.

 

b. into the deep puddle

3. She smiled.

 

c. from the tall shelf

Rewrite the following simple sentence, expanding it with at least two adjectives, two adverbs, and one prepositional phrase.

Simple Sentence: The girl walked.