Compound Sentences Check In

Is the following sentence a Simple Sentence or Compound Sentence?

I really wanted to eat a pumpkin muffin, so I drove to the store to buy one.

• Simple Sentence

• Compound Sentence
  

Is the following sentence a Simple sentence or a Compound sentence?

Judy and Grace ate an entire pizza during lunch.

• Simple Sentence

• Compound Sentence

A compound sentence is made up of what?

• One predendent clause and one independent clause

• Two independent clauses put together with a comma and a coordinating conjunction (FANBOY)

• One independent clause and one dependent clause

• Two dependent clauses and an independent clause put together with a subordinating conjunction

Which of these is NOT a FANBOY?

• so

• yet

• for

• after

What are the coordinating conjunctions?

• and, of , from

• or, from , in

• in , on , at

• or, but, and

Tags

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

What comes before the coordinating conjunction (FANBOY) in a compound sentence?

• a question mark

• a period

• the word "and"

• a comma

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.7.1B

What is the other way you can join two independent clauses together besides the comma and coordinating conjunction (FANBOY)?

• reverse colon

• whole colon

• semi-colon

• anti-colon

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Which is a semi-colon?

• ;

• <

• "

• :

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

What is one reason that we should use compound sentences

• To break up a lot of short choppy sentences with combining them into compound sentences

• To show off to the reader that we know how to write compound sentences so that they think we are smart

• To make our writing more varied and interesting by writing different kinds of sentences

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.7.1B

Punctuate the following sentence correctly.

Javier prefers to play soccer with his team at school but his brother likes to play with his friends at the park.

• comma after team

• comma after but

• no comma needed

• comma after school