Sentence Types

The dog is loose.

• simple
• complex
• compound
• compound-complex

The train was late.

• simple
• complex
• compound
• compound complex

I looked for Mary and Samantha at the bus station.

• simple
• complex
• compound
• compound-complex

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

has the most basic elements that make it a sentence: a subject, a verb, and a completed thought

• simple
• complex
• compound
• compound-complex

a sentence made up of two independent clauses (or complete sentences) connected to one another with a coordinating conjunction.

• simple
• complex
• compound
• compound-complex

FANBOYS":
For
And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So

• adjectives
• verbs
• coordinating conjunctions
• subjective conjunctions

Joe waited for the train, but the train was late

• simple
• complex
• compound
• compound-complext

Mary and Samantha arrived at the bus station before noon, and they left on the bus before I arrived.

• simple
• complex
• compound
• compound-complex

similar to an independent clause, or complete sentence, but it lacks one of the elements that would make it a complete sentence.

• dependent clause
• phrase
• independent clause

can also stand by itself as a complete sentence

• dependent clause
• phrase
• independent clause

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B