Simple Sentences
What type of clause is in a simple sentence?
Independent clause
What is a complex sentence?
Answers will vary.
A complex sentence contains at least one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What type of clauses make up a compound sentence?
Independent clauses.
What is a simple sentence?
Give three examples of subordinating conjunctions
while, after, before, if, whether, that, because, since, as.
What conjunction do use in this sentence? The dog ran away _______ Stan went to find him.
The dog ran away so Stan went to find him.
How many coordinating and subordinating conjunctions are there in a simple sentence?
None.
What is the structure of a basic complex sentence?
Independent clause Dependent clause.
Or the other way around. Answers will vary.
What kind of clauses do FANBOYS conjunctions connect?
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
They connect independent clauses.
What kind of sentence is this? (Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex)
Mary, my best friend from Chicago, came to visit me in California with her mother and two of her brothers.
Simple Sentence (It has a subject, a verb and it expresses a complete thought).
Give an example of a relative pronoun.
who, which, whose
What does FANBOYS stand for?
For. And. Nor. But. Or. Yet. So