Review Sentence Structure

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Clauses are...

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the parts of a sentence.

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Two types of clauses:

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independent and dependent

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Independent clause...

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can stand alone as a complete sentence.

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A simple sentence consists of...

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an independent clause

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A compound sentence consists of...

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two or more independent clauses

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Compound sentence: 'Alice went to the movies with her friends, she forgot to bring candy.' Is it correct?

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No

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Smushing two independent clauses without proper connection.

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a run-on sentence

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Is this sentence correct? Alice went to the movies with friends, but forgot candy.

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Yes

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A dependent clause...

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cannot stand on its own as a complete sentence.

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Example of a SIMPLE sentence:

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I want to eat some ice-cream.