Commas and Relative Clauses

Year 5 EnglishRelative Clauses3 pages

About this worksheet

Commas and relative clauses for Year 5, over three pages. A box sets out the two kinds, with Mrs Patel, who teaches Year 5, loves maths as the extra-information example and Pupils who practise every day improve quickly as the other. Pupils read ten sentences without commas, add a pair where the clause gives extra information and tick a box where none are needed. Page 2 asks why The book that I borrowed is overdue needs no commas, then asks for one sentence of each kind. The key shows all ten sentences. It follows England National Curriculum grammar for Years 5 and 6.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œusing brackets, dashes or commas to indicate parenthesisโ€

Pupils add a pair of commas around the clause in sentences such as London which is the capital of England is very busy.

Writing - vocabulary, grammar and punctuation

โ€œusing relative clauses beginning with who, which, where, when, whose, that, or with an implied (i.e. omitted) relative pronounโ€

Every sentence has a relative clause, and Task 2 asks pupils to write two of their own.

What's inside this worksheet

Two Kinds of Relative Clauses

A box with one example of each kind. The first has the clause between commas, and the second tells us which person or thing is meant.

Add Commas Where Needed

Ten sentences, from My grandad who is 80 still plays tennis to People who drop litter should be fined. Each has a tick box for no commas needed.

Explain and Write

Pupils explain why The book that I borrowed is overdue needs no commas, then write one sentence with commas and one without.

Answers

The ten sentences corrected, the ticked ones marked, and a sample answer for each part of Task 2.

How teachers use it

Teaching the test

Show pupils how to cover the clause and read what is left. If the sentence still tells the same story, the clause goes between commas.

Tick first

Ask pupils to tick the sentences that need no commas before they add any. It stops them putting commas into every sentence.

Exit ticket

Use Task 2 question 2 at the end of the lesson. Pupils swap sentences with a partner and say which is which.

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