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Sentence Types
Sentence Types
Simple
Compound
Complex
CompoundComplex
SUBJECT
PREDICATE
Basic Elements
SUBJECT
PREDICATE
Mary
playstennis.
Simple Sentence
Simple Sentence
Simple Sentence
Observehowasimplesentenceisconstructed:
WewenttoSanJuanyesterday.
Simple Sentence
Pronoun
Verb
Prepositionalphrase
WewenttoSanJuan.
Simplesubject
Completepredicate
SIMPLE SENTENCE
SUBJECT
PREDICATE
Mary
playstennis.
one subject
one predicate
Simple Sentence
TomandMary
Compound Subject
&
playtennis.
Simple Sentence
TomandMary
Compound Subject
&
playtennisandswim.
Compound Predicate
&
SIMPLE SENTENCE
with compound subject
Tom and Mary play tennis.
SIMPLE SENTENCE
with compound subject
and
compound predicate
Tom and Mary play tennis and
swim.
Compound Sentence
Compound Sentence
coordinating
conjunctive
colon.
adverbs
conjunctions,
or
semi-
Compound Sentence
Compound Sentence
Subject
Verb
Prepositionalphrase
Predicate
Verb
Modifyingphrase
Compound Sentence
Use of Coordinating
Conjunctions
SUBJECT
SUBJECT
PREDICATE
PREDICATE
Compound Sentence
Tom
swims,
and
Mary
playstennis.
COMPOUND SENTENCE:
COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
FOR
AND
NOR
BUT
OR
YET
SO
COMPOUND SENTENCE:
COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
Clause 2
Independent
Independent
COMPOUND SENTENCE:
COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
incompound
sentences!
COMPOUND SENTENCE:
CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS
MOREOVER
HOWEVER
OTHERWISE
THEREFORE
COMPOUND SENTENCE:
CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS
Clause 2
Independent
COMPOUND SENTENCE:
CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS
Note:Semicolon
beforeconjunctive
adverbandcomma
afterconjunctiveadverb!
CONJUNCTIVE ADVERB:
AT THE BEGINNING, IN THE
MIDDLE,AT THE END
Bob is handsome; moreover, he is rich.
Bob is handsome; he is, moreover, rich.
Bob is handsome; he is rich, moreover.
Semicolons
If the relation between the ideas
expressed in the main clauses is
very close and obvious without a
conjunction, you can separate the
clauses with a semicolon (Little,
Brown Handbook, 9th Edition, p.
361).
COMPOUND SENTENCE:
SEMICOLON
Answers
1.
2.
3.
4.
Simple
Compound
Compound
Simple
References
WritingAcademicEnglish,SecondEdition,byAlice
OshimaandAnnHogue.WhitePlains:Addison,
Wesley,Longman,1999.
TheLittle,BrownHandbook,byH.RamseyFowlerand
JaneE.Aaron,Pearson,2004.