Sentence Types

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Sentence Types

• Sentence Structure

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Simple Sentences

• Simple sentences have just one clause (subject
  and predicate).
• Ex Americans eat more bananas than they eat any
  other fruit.

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Coordinating Conjunctions

• F.A.N.B.O.Y.S.
• For
• And
• Nor
• But
• Or
• Yet
• So

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Compound Sentence

• Two or more independent clauses joined with a
  coordinating conjunction or a semicolon.
• Example
• Mushrooms grow in damp places, so they look like
  umbrellas.
• The largest mammals are found in the sea theres
  nowhere else to put them.

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Subordinating Conjunctions

• Most common subordinators

After Now that When
Although Once Whenever
As Since Where
Because That Wherever
Before Though While
Even if Unless
If Until
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Complex Sentences

• Two or more independent clauses joined with a
  subordinating conjunction.
• Example
• Parallel lines never meet until you bend one of
  them.
• Many dead animals of the past changed to oil,
  while others preferred to be gas.

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Compound-Complex Sentences

• Has a dependent clause and at least two
  independent clauses.
• Examples
• When the heat comes, the lakes dry up, and
  farmers know crops will fail.

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Practice

• Identify each sentence as simple, compound,
  complex, or compound-complex
• If at first you dont succeed, destroy all
  evidence that you tried.
• The hardness of the butter is proportional to the
  softness of the bread.
• It takes about half a gallon of water to cook
  spaghetti, and about a gallon of water to clean
  the pot.

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• 4. Genetics explains why you look like your
  father, and if you dont, why you should.
• 5. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism
  to steal from many is research.