Sentence Construction

•Compound Sentences•Complex Sentences

Compound SentencesCompound A sentence that consistsSentence of two or more simple

sentences. Examples: The weather was perfect,

and everything wasready for the picnic.The weather was perfect, so Alejandro returned to the house to put away his umbrella.

Coordinating ConjunctionsCoordinating Words that connect

Conjunctionswords, phrases, and clauses of roughly equal importance.

Examples:ForAndNorButOrYetSo

Compound Sentence TypesCompound A sentence that consistsSentence Type 1 of two or more simple

sentences joined by a comma followed by a coordinating conjunction.

Examples:The dog barked, and the cat yowled.Fred was more than an hour late, so I decided to go by myself.

Conjunctive AdverbsConjunctive Words that modify wholeAdverbs sentences and indicate the

relationship between one idea and the next.

Examples:Moreover, the teamshad no choice.

Conjunctive AdverbsExamples: "Nothing can be unconditional;

consequently, nothing can be free."(George Bernard Shaw)Afterward, anyway, besides, finally, nevertheless, on the contrary, therefore, however

Compound Sentence TypesCompound A sentence that

consistsSentence Type 3 of two or more

simple sentences joined with a semicolon.

Examples: The dog barked; the cat yowled.

Compound Sentence TypesCompound A sentence that consistsSentence Type 2 of two independent

clauses joined by a semicolon and a conjunctive adverb.

Examples:Tom reads novels; however, Jack reads comics.

Complex SentencesComplex Sentence A sentence that consists

of one independent clause and one dependent clause.

Examples: When we heard how Dependent, Independent much the repairs cost, we

decided to get a new television set.

Complex SentencesExamples:After we heard howDependent, Independent much a new television set

would cost, we thought again about the repairs.We finally decided to

Independent, Dependent get a new set although we couldn’t really afford it.

Check, Please!Partner up!

In your partners, write a story that includes:• 1 Simple Sentence

• 2 Compound Sentences Type 1• 2 Compound Sentences Type 2• 2 Compound Sentences Type 3

• 3 Complex Sentences

Please underline and label all requirements.Your story is a western.

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Grammar (Painless Series). Danbury: Barron's Educational Series, 2006.

Daniels, David I. HarperCollins College Outline English Grammar (Harper Collins College Outline Series). New York: Collins, 1991.