Correlative Conjunctions
Your child can use joining words that come in pairs, like either and or, or both and and. They keep both sides of the pair balanced.
In curriculum terms
Use correlative conjunctions correctly in sentences, pairing words such as either/or, neither/nor, both/and, not only/but also, and whether/or
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
When your child wants to say that two things are equally true — like "both cats and dogs make good pets" — do they know to use "both…and" together, rather than just "and" on its own?
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
understand that complex sentences contain one independent clause and at least one dependent clause typically joined by a subordinating conjunction to create relationships, such as time and causality
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.