Sentences: Types, Structures, and Clauses

What is a simple sentence?

• It is a type of sentence with two independent clauses.

• It is a type of sentence with one independent clause.

• It is a type of sentence with one independent clause and a dependent clause.

• It is a type of sentence with two dependent clauses.

What is a compound-complex sentence?

• It is a type of sentence with one independent clause and a dependent clause.

• It is a type of sentence with two independent clauses.

• It is a type of sentence with two dependent clauses.

• It is a type of sentence with at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.

Declarative sentences

• give a command or instructions

• ask a question

• give information or facts

• express a BIG emotion

Imperative sentences

• give a command or instructions

• ask a question

• give information or facts

• express a BIG emotion

A fragment would be an example of a ____ clause

• Main

• Dependent

• Relative

• Independent

Compound Sentences...

• Contain one independent clause

• contain at least 2 independent clauses

• contain a subordinate caluse and an independent clause

• contain at least 2 independent clauses and at least 1 subordinate clause

Complex sentences...

• contain one independent clause

• contain at least 2 independent clauses

• contain a subordinate clause and an independent clause

• contain at least 2 independent clauses and at least 1 subordinate clause

Interrogative sentences

• give a command or instructions

• ask a question

• give information or facts

• express a BIG emotion

Exclamatory sentences

• give a command or instructions

• ask a question

• give information or facts

• express a BIG emotion

A _____ clause is a group of words that can stand alone as a sentence