Complex and Dependent Clauses

Which part of this sentence is a dependent clause?

No one is perfect - that's why pencils have erasers.

- Wolfgang Riebe

• No one is perfect

• No one

• That's why pencils have erasers

• have erasers

What is a complex sentence?

• Contains one independent clause

• Contains two or more independent clauses

• Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

• Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

What is a compound complex sentence?

• Contains one independent clause

• Contains two or more independent clauses

• Contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

• Contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

What type of sentence is this?

"If you're neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

- Desmond Tutu

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-complex

What type of sentence is this?"Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do."- Oprah Winfrey

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-complex

What is a dependent clause?

• A sentence that CANNOT stand on it's own.

• A sentence that can stand on it's own.

What is a complex sentence?

• Contains ONE independent clause

• Contains two or more independent clauses

• Contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses

Is the following sentence simple, compound, or complex?

Because the boys went to the park, they did not go to the zoo.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

Is the following sentence simple, compound, or complex?

The boys did not go to the zoo because they went to the park.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

1 independent clause + 1 dependent clause

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex