TYPES OF SENTENCES

The production of a single pound of honey requires nectar from approximately two million flowers.

• Simple Sentence

• Compound Sentence

• Complex Sentence

• Compound Complex Sentence

Presidents John Adams and George H.W. Bush both had presidential sons, and coincidentally, both sons—John Quincy Adams and George W. Bush—were their fathers' namesakes.

• Simple Sentence

• Compound

• Complex

• Compond- Complex

An avid reader, Brody attends weekly book club meetings, and he finishes several novels every month.

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Tooth enamel—the hardest substance in the human body—doesn't consist of living tissue, so it can't regenerate itself if it is damaged.

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After a potato blight destroyed Ireland's potato crop and precipitated the Great Famine of 1845, the country lost twenty-five percent of its population to starvation and emigration.

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Connor took several incredible panoramic photographs of the sweeping view from the top of Table Mountain.

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Annual plants survive only one season and must be replaced each year, but perennials return each year with new flowers and foliage.

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After a parrotfish eats algae-covered coral, the coral travels through the fish's digestive system, and then it is deposited in the reef as white coral sand.

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Lorraine Hansberry wrote the widely acclaimed 1959 Broadway play A Raisin in the Sun, and her accomplishment opened the door for other African American playwrights.

• simple

• compoud

• complex

• compound-complex

Sentence that contains One main clause and One or more dependent clause

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• compound-complex