The Sentence

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Group 2

Simple Sentences

Simple sentence one action. It contains a subject (the person or thing doing the action) and a verb (a doing word). A simple sentence has one independent clause and no dependent clauses: The student yawned.

Although a simple sentence cannot have a dependent clause, it can have modifiers:

The tall student sitting in the back in my algebra class yawned loudly.
The basic sentence is The student yawned. The other words are modifiers they are descriptive words.

A simple sentence contains only one independent clause, but it can have more than one subject or verb:

TWO SUBJECTS: The student and his friend yawned.

TWO VERBS : The student yawned and fell asleep.

TWO SUBJECTS: The student and his friend yawned.

TWO VERBS : The student yawned and fell asleep.

A sentence with all these elements will be long, but it is still simple because it contains only one independent clause: The tall student sitting in the back in my physics class and his friend yawned loudly and fell asleep. Can you identify the real sentence and the modifiers?

The tall student sitting in the back in my physics class and his friend yawned loudly and fell asleep.

Compound sentences

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second type of sentence is the compound sentence. This sentence is composed of two simple sentences joined together by a comma and a joining word (coordinating conjunction). We could also describe a compound sentence as two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.

Complex sentence

A complex sentence has an independent clause with one or more dependent clauses (independent clauses are in italics). Note that introductory dependent clauses must be followed by commas: Since we got to the concert late, we had to make our way to our seats in the dark.

We left class early so that we could attend a special lecture.

Complex sentences should be punctuated in one of two ways:

INDEPENDENT CLAUSE dependent clause (no comma) We left class early so that we could attend a special lecture. Dependent clause, INDEPENDENT CLAUSE (comma) So that we could attend a special lecture, we left class early.

Comparing compound and complex sentences

interest, variety, and coherence compound sentences differ from complex sentences in one important way: In a compound sentence, both clauses have equal importance; in a complex sentence, the independent clause is more important.

Compare these sentences

COMPOUND John was tired, but he finished his homework. COMPLEX Although John was tired, he finished his homework. In the first sentence, the writer is communicating that both clauses are equally important. In the second sentence, the writer is saying that the subordinate clause ("John was tired") is less important than the independent clause ("he finished his homework").

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