Simple
Another name for a simple sentence.
What is independent clause?
A compound sentence contains two of these types of clauses.
What is independent?
They two types of clauses that make up a Complex sentence.
What are independent and dependent?
Some students like to study in the mornings.
What is simple?
________________,_______________, and ________________ are three of the basic sentence types.
What are simple, compound and complex?
Simple sentences contain this and a verb.
What is a subject?
What the "N" stands for in FANBOYS.
What is nor?
Because is an example of a---.
What is a subordinator or dependent word
The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow.
What is complex?
Mark broke his leg, he went to the hospital.
Mark broke his leg, so he went to the hospital.
or
mark broke his leg; he went to the hospital.
or
When/Because/After Mark broke his leg, he went to the hospital
This is another name for verb.
What is a predicate?
This precedes or goes before a coordinator in a compound sentence.
What is a comma?
Alicia goes to the library and studies every day.
What is simple?
The students were happy summer school was over.
The students were happy because/when . . .
period after summer and capital S
semicolon after summer
Is the following sentence simple?
Alarmed, Jack woke up in the middle of the night and told Jill to check for burglars.
yes
Two independent clauses are joined by this and a comma in a compound sentence.
What is a coordinator?
Alejandro played football, so Maria went shopping.
What is compound?
The FANBOYS are
for, and, nor, but, or, yet so
A simple sentence could be very long because it contains these two types of modifiers (describing words)
adjective and adverb
Combine the two sentences to make a compound sentence.
Jerry saw the movie.
He preferred the book.
Jerry saw the movie, but he preferred the book.
Jerry saw the movie; he preferred the book.
Jerry saw the movie; however, he preferred the book.
Combine the two sentences to make a complex sentence:
The kids played too long on a hot day.
They were burned and thirsty.
Because the kids played too long on a hot day, they were burned and thirsty.
After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies.
What is complex?
When Gloria graduated she celebrated with her family,
comma after graduated.