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Mastering Sentence Structure: Understanding Simple and Complex Sentences

This resource explores the essential elements of language through sentence exercises focusing on dependent and independent clauses. Learn how to construct simple sentences with subjects and verbs, as well as how to combine them using coordination and subordination. Examples provided illustrate how to express ideas effectively, including the use of FANBOYS and the importance of clarity in sentence construction. Perfect for students and anyone looking to enhance their writing skills.

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Mastering Sentence Structure: Understanding Simple and Complex Sentences

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  1. EN111, Winter, 2010 Melis SENTENCE EXERCISES

  2. The elements of language • Words: a, the, house, day, my, • Phrases: in the house, my day • Clauses • Dependent or subordinate (cannot stand on its own) When I am in the house. When I am in the house, I am not cold. (complex) I am not cold when I am in the house. (complex) • Independent (Can be punctuated as a sentence) I am in the house.

  3. SIMPLE SENTENCES: Subject and verb (multiple subjects or verbs +adverbs, adjectives) • The lawyer had a bad feeling. • Her client was withholding information. • The case was getting more complicated by the day. • She was tired and frustrated. • When will all this end? • On Saturday, she had another appointment. • Suddenly, she decided to wear her five-thousand dollar two-piece pin-stripe pants suit and a pair of Oxford shoes with high heels for this meeting.

  4. FANBOYS COMBINATION: COORDINATION OR COMPOUNDS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) • The lawyer had a bad feeling, but her client was withholding information. • The case was getting more complicated by the day, and she was tired and frustrated. • When will all this end, or when can we go home? • On Saturday, she had another appointment, so she decided to wear her five-thousand dollar two-piece pin-stripe pants suit and a pair of Oxford shoes with high heels for this meeting.

  5. DEPENDENT CLAUSE COMBINATION: subordination (complex) • The lawyer had a bad feeling that her client was withholding information. • As the case was getting more complicated by the day,she was tired and frustrated. • When all this ends, we will have learned something. • Because on Saturday she had another appointment,she decided to wear her five-thousand dollar two-piece pin-stripe pants suit and a pair of Oxford shoes with high heels for this meeting.

  6. PRACTICE • The coffee was brewing. The pleasant aroma filled the kitchen. • COORDINATION: • The coffee was brewing, and pleasant aroma filled the kitchen. • SUBORDINATION: • When the coffee was brewing, the pleasant aroma filled the kitchen. • The pleasant aroma filled the kitchen when the coffee was brewing.

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