Types of Sentences
What are the different types of sentences?
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences.
What's a simple sentence?
What is a complex sentence?
A complex sentence has a main and a subordinate clause.
What is a compound sentence?
A compound sentence has two independent clauses connected by a conjunction.
What is a Phrase?
A phrase is a cluster of words that do not make any coherent sense.
Identify the type of sentence?
Having completed her work, Radha went to play Badminton.
Simple Sentence
She completed her work and she went to play Badminton. Convert this into a Simple Sentence.
Having completed her work, she went to play Badminton.
Complex Sentence.
I ordered a cup of coffee and I ordered a Plum cake. Identify the type of Sentence.
Compound Sentence.
A golden castle. Is this a phrase or a clause?
A phrase.
A bunch of dry leaves was lifted and drifted by the wind. Identify the type of sentence.
Simple Sentence.
She was unwell and she did not eat. Identify the type of sentence.
Compound Sentence
She was unwell and she did not eat.
Having been unwell she did not eat.
She was unwell and she did not eat. How many dependent clauses are there in this sentence?
Zero.
Having achieved her goal, she walked confidently. Change to a complex sentence.
As she achieved her goal, she walked confidently.
What is a clause?
A clause has a subject and a predicate.
Birds of the same feather flock together. This sentence is a ....
Clause
I was down with a fever, so I did not turn in my assignment. This is a ....
Compound Sentence
How many independent clauses are there in the previous sentence?
Two
A typical complex sentence has:
A dependent and an independent clause.
Which sentences are not used in regular conversations?
Phrases.
I kicked the ball furiously. Kicked is ....
Finite, transitive verb.
As I coud not complete my work on time(1), I wrote a requisition letter to my HOD seeking an extension(2). Which is the dependent clause?
1
I was tired, and I was lazing around aimlessly. This is a...
Compound sentence.
A lump of flesh. This is a.....
Phrase