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Sentence Types:
1. Simple Sentence
2. Compound Sentence
3. Complex Sentence
4. Complex-Compound Sentence
Simple Sentences…
•Also called an INDEPENDENT CLAUSE
•Must contain a subject and a verb
•Be able to stand alone and make sense
•May have compound parts like a compound
subject (Jack and Jill) or a compound verb
(run, skip, jump, and leap)
•May contain modifiers like adjectives and
adverbs (Sly Jack and silly Jill skipped up and
tumbled carelessly down the hill.)
•May contain prepositional phrases (prep
phrases begin with a preposition and end with a
noun or pronoun – down the hill.)
•Must be capitalized and punctuated
correctly.
Examples of Simple Sentences
Halt!
(You) = understood subject + verb
Kayla enjoyed the movie.
•Simple subject + verb + direct object
Kayla and Sharika enjoyed the movie immensely.
•Compound subject + verb + direct object + adverb
On Saturday night, Kayla and Sharika enjoyed the
movie immensely.
Prepositional phrase + subject + verb + do + adverb
Compound Sentences
•Must contain at least TWO
independent clauses
•Each independent clause must be able
to stand alone as a sentence
•The independent clauses must be
combined by a comma and a
conjunction
•FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet,
so)
•Formula for a Compound Sentence:
•I.C. + comma + conjunction + I.C. + end mark
•Sometimes, a compound sentence may be combined
by a semicolon.
•IC + ; + IC + end mark
Example of a Compound Sentence
Kayla enjoyed the movie, but she would not recommend it to anyone.
Comma/conjunction
Independent clause
Independent clause
Complex Sentences
•Must contain an independent clause (can stand alone as a
sentence)
•Must contain one dependent or subordinate clause
•A word group with a subject and a verb but it cannot stand
alone as a sentence
•While Mary slept (this can’t stand alone but it does
have a subject and a verb)
•The subordinate/dependent clause may be at the beginning, in
the middle, or at the end of the independent clause (If the
dependent clause is at the beginning of the sentence, a comma
must follow it.)
•Formula for a Complex Sentence:
•IC + DC + end mark
•Mary slept while the baby slept.
•DC + comma + IC + end mark
•While the baby slept, Mary slept.
•Part of the IC + DC + the rest of the IC + end mark
•The man who is a clown in the circus is funny.
Example of a Complex Sentence with the Clause Beginning the Sentence
While Casey was at bat, the other team heckled him.
Comma
dependent clause
Independent clause
Example of a Complex Sentence with the Clause at the End
Kayla enjoyed the movie while her mother shopped at the mall..
No comma needed
independent clause
dependent clause
Compound-Complex Sentence
•Combines a compound sentence with a dependent clause.
•The dependent clause can be anywhere
•There can be more than once dependent clause
•Formula for a compound-complex sentence:
•IC + comma + conjunction + IC + DC + end mark
•Imogene is a twin, but her twin is boy who resembles
their father.
•DC + comma + IC + comma + conjunction + IC + end mark
•While Imogene resembles their mother, she has a
twin brother, and he resembles their father.
•IC + DC + comma + conjunction + IC + end mark
•Imogene is a twin who looks like her mother, but her
twin brother looks like their father.
Example of a Compound-complex Sentence
Kayla enjoyed the movie, yet while she liked it, she would not recommend it.
Comma/conjunction
Dependent
clause
Independent clause
Independent clause