Compound Sentences

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Compound Sentences

• Rules to live by

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Review

• What does every simple sentence contain?
• A subject and verb that makes sense.
• What do we call a group of words that has a
  subject, verb and makes sense?
• An independent clause
• How many independent clauses does a simple
  sentence have?
• One

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What is a compound sentence

• A compound sentences is a sentence made up of two
  complete thoughts.
• Each part of the sentence can stand alone as a
  complete sentence.
• Compound sentences are connected by two types of
  connectors, which we will talk about later.

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Compound Sentences

• Example of compound sentences
• The students finished class, and they went to
  lunch.
• Kevin did not want to hurt Kathys feelings, so
  he said nothing about her mistake.
• I want to see my sister soon, for she has been in
  Switzerland for two years.

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• What is the difference between compound sentences
  and SS VV simple sentences?

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Things that are the same.

• Simple Sentences
• Can have 2 subjects.
• Can have 2 verbs

• Compound Sentences
• Can have 2 subjects
• Can have 2 verbs

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What makes them different? The Formulas

• Compound Sentences
• 1 subject is doing on action and 1 subject is
  doing a different action
• SV SV

• Simple Sentences
• 2 subjects doing 2 thins at the same time
• SS VV

Because of this difference a simple sentences
with two subjects and two verbs can not stand
alone.
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Compare
S
S
V

• The men and women met at the station and went to
  dinner.
• Simple Sentence
• The men met at the station, and the women went to
  dinner.
• Compound Sentence

V
S
S
V
V
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Compare
S
V
V
S

• The ducks and geese squawked and fluttered their
  wings.
• Simple Sentence
• The ducks squawked, and the geese fluttered their
  wings.
• Compound Sentence

S
S
V
V
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Compare
V
S
S
V

• Harry and Joe ate ice cream and drank pop.
• Simple Sentence
• Harry ate ice cream, and Joe drank pop.
• Compound Sentence

S
V
S
V
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How to combine two independent clauses

• We have two ways

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First way

• A Coordinating Conjunction
• A word that is used with a comma to join two
  independent clauses

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Coordinating Conjunctions

• , but
• , or
• , yet
• , so

• , for
• , and
• , nor

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  conjunctions!

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Examples

• Baseball is my favorite sport to watch, but
  football is my favorite sport to play.
• The children ran all the way to school, yet they
  were late anyway.
• You will have to finish the project, or your
  group will get a failing grade

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Second way

• Semicolons
• Semicolons can also be used to join the two
  independent clauses of a compound sentence.

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Examples

• Susan loves to swim her brother likes to dive.
• Jason was highly respected he was always such a
  nice person.
• The meeting was over it was already midnight.