THE 3 SENTENCE TYPES

1. THE 3 SENTENCE TYPES Simple, Compound, & Complex Sentences

2. Look at the sentences.what is a compound sentence? What is a simple sentence?

3. SIMPLE SENTENCES

4. TELL your partner: • WHAT IS A CONJUNCTION? • WHAT IS A SUBJECT? • WHAT IS A VERB? • WHAT IS A PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE?

5. SIMPLE SENTENCES • A simple sentence involves one S/Vpair, or a clause. • This could be S and SV • SV and V • S and SV and V • Nadiatalks. • Nadia and Danielletalk. • Nadiatalks and walks. • Nadia and Danielletalk, eat,and walk.

6. COMPOUND SENTENCES

7. COMPOUND SENTENCES • A compound sentence involves 2 or more S/V pairs. • John ran, but Joe stayed. • You can watch, or you can help me. • I hate it, but he’sright.

8. COMPOUND SENTENCES • We use FANBOYS with simple and compoundsentences! • For • And • Nor • But • Or • Yet • So

9. COMPOUND SENTENCES • You can use more than one CC in a sentence! • Italked to my friend, andhewas very excited about your idea, buthe’s very worried about your reputation.

10. COMPOUND SENTENCES • AVOID starting a sentence with FANBOYS in formal writing! • It’s very common in speech and informal writing, but is often seen as lazy for academic writing. • I saw my mother. AndI left home. AAAAAAAAAAARRRRGHHH!!!

11. COMPOUND SENTENCES • We don’t like to repeat the same word in English! • We just take away the extra words if the meaning is clear! • Are the new sentences simple or compound? • John ran, and John jumped. • Johnran and jumped. • Peoplelaugh, and peoplecry. • Peoplelaugh and cry. • Iate a cake, and Iate a pie. • I ate a cake and a pie.

12. PRACTICE TIME!

13. PRACTICE TIME!

14. Look at the sentences.what is a compound sentence? What is a simple sentence?

15. COMPLEX SENTENCES

16. Look at the sentences.what is a compound sentence? What is a COMPLEX sentence?

17. COMPLEX SENTENCES • Complexsentences follow different rules than compound sentences. • They are more difficult. They are more complex.

18. COMPLEX SENTENCES- COMMAS • We use subordinating conjunctions with complex sentences. • Sometimes we use commas, sometimes we don’t. • Can you guess when we use the commas? If I go there, she’ll be angry. She’ll be angry if I go there. When you come, he’ll leave. He’ll leave when you come.

19. COMPLEX SENTENCES- COMMAS SC • We use subordinating conjunctions with complex sentences. • We call them SC for short!

20. COMPLEX SENTENCES- COMMAS • after • because • before • if • since • until • when • while • There are MANY SC’s in English! • Here are some common SC’s, but there are many more!

21. COMPLEX SENTENCES • Next, let’s talk about DEPENDENT and INDEPENDENT clauses!

22. COMPLEX SENTENCES • As a student, if you are INDEPENDENT, you can do many adult things by yourself. You can do laundry, buy groceries, and pay rent. • If you are DEPENDENT, adults or friends do these things for you because you don’t know how, or you are afraid! INDEPENDENT DEPENDENT

23. COMPLEX SENTENCES • When you study, you will do well. • You will do wellwhen you study. • Dependent clause (DC) • Independent Clause (IC)

24. COMPLEX SENTENCES IC • Dependent clause = DC • Independent clause = IC DC

25. COMPLEX SENTENCES • If a clause starts with an SC, it’s DEPENDENT. It doesn’t want to be alone. • This clause is DEPENDENT on another, stronger, clause, the INDEPENDENTclause. • When she leaves, I cry. • She leaves when I cry.

26. COMPLEX SENTENCES • An INDEPENDENTclause is very strong. • It does not need help going shopping, and it can stand in a sentence by itself. • I’ll buy you cake. =  • I’ll come to the store with you. =

27. COMPLEX SENTENCES • A DEPENDENT clause gets sad when it is alone. • It doesn’t know how to do anything that adult sentences do, so it always needs an adult sentence. • When she leaves. =  • If you go. =  • When she leaves, I’ll buy you cake. =  • If you go, I’ll come to the store with you. =

28. COMPLEX SENTENCES • When the DC is at the BEGINNING, we use a comma! • When the DC is at the END, we don’t use a comma! If I go there, she’ll be angry. She’ll be angry if I go there. When you come, he’ll leave. He’ll leave when you come.

29. Look at the sentences.what is a compound sentence? What is a COMPLEX sentence?

30. TIME CLAUSES

31. TIME CLAUSES – PRESENT AND FUTURE

32. TIME CLAUSES – PAST AND PAST “If” is hard to use in the past!

33. TIME CLAUSES – PRESENT AND PRESENT/IMPERATIVE

34. the 3 sentence types

35. RUN-ONS and FRAGments

36. Look at the sentences.what is a RUN-ON?

37. Run-ONS IC, IC • A RUN-ON is when you connect two IC with a comma only. • This is very easy to do, but it is also very incorrect!

38. Run-ONS R-O • EXAMPLES: • People come here, they have fun. • We’re walking, I don’t know what to do. • When I find one, I’ll mark it like this:

39. Look at the sentences.what is a FRAGMENT?

40. Sentence fragments DC. • A SENTENCE FRAGMENT is when you leave a poor DC with no friends.  • It’s also when you leave a PP (prepositional phrase) or any type of noun phrase with no friends.

41. Sentence fragments • EXAMPLES: • I know. People in China. • Which is bad. • For example, dogs. • When I find one, I’ll mark it like this: Frag

42. Questions answered in this presentation • Review: What is a clause? What is a compound sentence? What are FANBOYS? • What shouldn’t we do with FANBOYS? • What are the 3 sentence types? • What type of conjunction do we use with complex sentences? • What is the difference between a dependent and independent clause? • What tenses do we use with complex sentences? • What’s a sentence fragment? What’s a run-on?