A Simple Sentence, is defined as a sentence containing one independent clause.
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What is a Complex Sentence?
Has one Independent Clause and one or more dependent (subordinate clauses)
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What is a Compound Sentence?
A Compound Sentence, is defined as a sentence containing two or more independent clauses separated by a coordinating conjuction.
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Independent Clause
A clause that can stand alone as a sentence, containing a subject and a predicate with a finite verb, as I was there in the sentence I was there when he arrived.
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Dependent Clauses
A clause that modifies the principal clause or some part of it or that serves a noun function in the principal clause, as when she arrived in the sentence I was there when she arrived or that she has arrived in the sentence I doubt that she has arrived.
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Give an example of a Simple Sentence.
Anything with one independent clause
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Give one Example of a Complex Sentence.
The man ran, to find himself a car.
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Give two examples of Compound Sentences.
Anything with two or more clauses.
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Why are independent clauses, "independent?"
Because of the fact that there is only one subject; and one predicate.
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Why are dependent clauses "dependent?"
Because they have a subject and a verb, but can't stand alone.
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Daily Double!!!!2!!
Tell a story with one compound-complex sentence :P
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Daily Double!!!!!!!!1!!
Tell a story, with four independent clauses.