In April you will use adverb clause openings in your sentences. (Look at "middle school materials" for the file called "Style Stuff" and find the list of subordinating conjunctions on that page).
Take two sentences that can go together nicely:
I went to the market to get some fresh vegetables for dinner.
I stopped at the library to pick up some books.
Use a subordinating conjunction from the list (not "when") in front of the first sentence. Change the period to a comma and attach it at the beginning of the second sentence.
After I went to the market to get some fresh vegetables for dinner, I stopped at the library
to pick up some books.
You can play with the sentences to make them work with other subordinating conjunctions:
Take two sentences that can go together nicely:
I went to the market to get some fresh vegetables for dinner.
I stopped at the library to pick up some books.
Use a subordinating conjunction from the list (not "when") in front of the first sentence. Change the period to a comma and attach it at the beginning of the second sentence.
After I went to the market to get some fresh vegetables for dinner, I stopped at the library
to pick up some books.
You can play with the sentences to make them work with other subordinating conjunctions:
- Once I finished shopping for fresh vegetables for dinner, I stopped at the library to pick up some books.
- Before I went to the market to buy some fresh vegetables for dinner, I stopped at the library to pick up some books.
- As I finished shopping for fresh vegetables for dinner, I decided to stop at the library to pick up some books.
