Sentences and Clauses

How do you feel about your knowledge of sentence types?

• Excellent, let's get into compound-complex sentences!

• Good, I could probably pass a test about simple, compound, and complex sentences.

• Okay, I may need more review, but I remember a lot from this subject.

• Not great, I feel like we haven't even learned this.

Find all the independent clauses.

• The pink polka-dotted giraffe was my favorite stuffed animal.

• A hippo was splashing water all over the people watching him.

• the purple grape

• sitting on my chair

They were lost, and the airplane was beginning to run low on fuel.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

Over the years, millions of dollars have been spent searching for her since she disappeared 82 years ago.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

Although people have searched for many years, no one has been able to find her or her missing plane.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

Identify the simple sentence.

• Shelly likes to go to school because she has a lot of friends.

• Shelly has a lot of friends at school.

• At school, Shelly has a lot of friends.

What is a compound sentence?

• dependent clause and independent clause.

• independent clauses joined with a comma and coordinating conjunction.

• compound sentences joined with a dependent clause.

Identify the compound sentence.

• Celery grows on large stalks, so stalkers must like to eat a lot of celery.

• People under large boulders are usually flat because they are under a large boulder. 

• There was a giant grasshopper that they're scared of over by their blanket.

Identify the complex sentence.

• I have to stay after school to read my library book.

• I have to stay after school so I can make my AR goal.

• I have to stay after school to read my library book because I did not make my AR goal.

They looked out the window of their airplane, but there was no island in sight.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex