Compound complex sentences

A simple sentence

• has two or more clauses joined with a coordinating conjunction

• has three or more clauses joined by coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

• has a subject and predicate, one clause

• has two or more clauses (sentences) joined with a subordinating conjunction.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.1.1J

A compound sentence:

• has two or more clauses joined with a coordinating conjunction

• has three or more clauses joined by coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

• has a subject and predicate, one clause

• has two or more clauses (sentences) joined with a subordinating conjunction.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.4.2C

A complex sentence:

• has two or more clauses joined with a coordinating conjunction

• has three or more clauses joined by coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

• has a subject and predicate, one clause

• has two or more clauses (sentences) joined with a subordinating conjunction.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.2.1F

A compound/complex sentence:

• has two or more clauses joined with a coordinating conjunction

• has three or more clauses joined by coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.

• has a subject and predicate, one clause

• has two or more clauses (sentences) joined with a subordinating conjunction.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.2.1F

There are ____ functions of sentences and ____ types of sentences.

• 3, 4

• 4, 3

• 4, 4

• 5, 4

Check ALL the boxes with TRUE statements

• Sentences created with subordinating clauses are called complex.

• Sentences created with coordinating clauses are called compound.

• Function means the purpose or use of a thing.

• Type means categories or kind of.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.4.2C

The following sentence is a simple sentence:

• Money got tighter and my parents turned on each other.

• Perhaps the best way to sum this all up is to say people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief when they knew their boys were being shipped out of the south to do battle overseas.

• We brought friends home, and she’d listen to us talk about school and girls and boys and whatever else was on our minds; afterwards she knew all of our secrets.

• The churchly women and the matter of fact no nonsense men, had children in the army.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.1.1J

The following sentence is a compound sentence:

• Money got tighter and my parents turned on each other.

• Perhaps the best way to sum this all up is to say people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief when they knew their boys were being shipped out of the south to do battle overseas.

• We brought friends home, and she’d listen to us talk about school and girls and boys and whatever else was on our minds; afterwards she knew all of our secrets.

• The churchly women and the matter of fact no nonsense men, had children in the army.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.4.2C

The following sentence is a complex sentence:

• Money got tighter and my parents turned on each other.

• Perhaps the best way to sum this all up is to say people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief when they knew their boys were being shipped out of the south to do battle overseas.

• We brought friends home, and she’d listen to us talk about school and girls and boys and whatever else was on our minds; afterwards she knew all of our secrets.

• The churchly women and the matter of fact no nonsense men, had children in the army.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.2.1F

The following sentence is a compound/complex sentence:

• Money got tighter and my parents turned on each other.

• Perhaps the best way to sum this all up is to say people I knew felt, mainly, a peculiar kind of relief when they knew their boys were being shipped out of the south to do battle overseas.

• We brought friends home, and she’d listen to us talk about school and girls and boys and whatever else was on our minds; afterwards she knew all of our secrets.

• The churchly women and the matter of fact no nonsense men, had children in the army.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.2.1F