Year 2 Compound sentences worksheet

“Statements, questions and commands” is free to print, with no account. It is the first sheet in the Year 2 English unit “Compound sentences”, for children aged 6 to 7, and takes about 20 minutes.

Print it on A4. The child's pages come first; the answers, and what each wrong answer tells you, are on the grown-up page that follows. Weeks 1 to 2 of the year, 7 sheets in the unit.

Free sample · answers on the last page

Statements, questions and commands

Name: ____________ · Date: ____________
Year 2 · English · about 20 minutes
Answers are on the grown-up page

Today I can tell a statement, a question and a command apart.

A Look back3 min

1.
Ben jumps over the log. Circle the doing word.
Benjumpslog
2.
Which mark should end this sentence? Lily ate her lunch
.?,
3.
sam likes cats. Which word needs a capital letter? Circle it.
Samlikescats

B Watch me, then you4 min

A school gate has three notes for children. Each note does a different job. Look for the clues in each one.

A school gate with a bike rack and a sunny playground behind it

Watch me

The bikes go in this rack. This is a statement. It ends with a full stop.

Where do the bikes go? This is a question. It ends with a question mark.

Put your bike in the rack. This is a command. It starts with a bossy verb.

Now you

1.
Lift the lid. Circle the job it does.
statementquestioncommand

C Your turn6 min

Read each sentence. Circle the job it does.

1.
The bus is late. Circle the job it does.
statementquestioncommand
2.
Is the bus late? Circle the job it does.
statementquestioncommand
3.
Wait by the bus stop. Circle the job it does.
statementquestioncommand
4.
Stop running! Circle the job it does.
statementquestioncommand

Say it out loud: What gave you the job: the first word, the end mark, or what the sentence means?

D Spot the mistake3 min

A plate with a cake cut into slices on a kitchen table

Kit says: “Share the cake fairly.” is a statement because it ends with a full stop.

1.
What job does “Share the cake fairly.” really do? Circle the job.
statementquestioncommand

E Think deeper3 min

A blue front door with a red letterbox and a flower pot beside it

1.
Write a statement, a question and a command about a door. Check each one has the right end mark.

How did it feel?

Tell your grown-up which job was the trickiest to spot, and why.

I can do it Nearly Not yet

For the grown-up

Statements, questions and commands · 2 minutes to read

Answers, and what a wrong one tells you

A

1. jumps

2. .

3. Sam

B

1. command your child may have seen the full stop and chosen statement. Ask: is someone being told to do something? Then it is a command.

C

1. statement

2. question

3. command your child may think a full stop means statement. Ask: is someone being told to wait? Then it is a command.

4. command your child may have picked statement because of the exclamation mark. The sentence tells someone to stop, so it is a command. Commands can end with ! as well as a full stop.

D

1. command If your child circles statement, the full stop has fooled them. A command can end with a full stop. Ask: is someone being told to do something?

E

1. Look for: Three sentences about a door: a statement ending in a full stop, a question ending in a question mark, and a command starting with a bossy verb.

Words to use

Say“Read me the sentence. What job is it doing? How do you know?”

Instead of“Tell them the answer straight away, or say that all commands end with an exclamation mark.”

After the sheet

Use the fridge. Make one true sentence about it, then one sentence asking about it, then one sentence telling someone to do something with it. Swap turns and guess each other’s job.

Tick what your child got right in StudyDen. Anything missed comes back in a later Look back box, so there's no need to redo the sheet.

The rest of this unit

6 more sheets come with a StudyDen plan, in teaching order:

Exclamation sentences(with a plan)
Joining with and(with a plan)
Using 'but' to join ideas(with a plan)
Choices with 'or'(with a plan)
Two ideas, one joining word(with a plan)
Joining words that flow(with a plan)

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