Sentence Types Simple Compound Complex Compound-Complex

“‘We don’t have the money.’ (p. 51).” Simple Sentence A simple sentence has one subject (who or what the sentence is about and one predicate (tells something about the subject). Subject (Pronoun) Verb “‘We don’t have the money.’ (p. 51).” Simple subject Complete predicate

and Mom has a Maserati.’”(p. 51). Compound Sentence A compound sentence has more than one part that can stand alone (independent clauses). Independent clauses are connected by coordinating conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs or a semi-colon. Verb Subject “‘You have a Porsche, Coordinating Conjunction Predicate and Mom has a Maserati.’”(p. 51). Subject Verb Predicate

COMPOUND SENTENCE: COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS AND CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS FOR AND NOR BUT OR YET SO MOREOVER OTHERWISE THEREFORE HOWEVER THEN FINALLY otherwise know as FANBOYS These are just examples there are a lot more of these

Compound Sentences: Conjunctive Adverbs Subject “‘You have a Porsche, Conjunctive Adverb Predicate moreover, Mom has a Maserati.’”(p. 51). Subject Verb Predicate

Compound Sentences: Semi-colons Verb Subject “‘You have a Porsche; Mom has a Maserati.’”(p. 51). Subject Predicate Predicate Verb

a great motivator and teacher” (50). Complex Sentence A complex sentence has at least two parts: one that can stand alone and another one that cannot The part that cannot stand alone is linked to the rest of the sentence by a subordinating conjunction Complete Subject “Someone like the Hollywood mogul grew up in the Old Country of the middle class, Part that cannot stand alone Predicate Subordinating Conjunction where scarcity was a great motivator and teacher” (50).

COMPLEX SENTENCE: SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS The most common subordinating conjunctions are "after," "although," "as," "because," "before," "how," "if," "once," "since," "than," "that," though," "till," "until," "when," "where," "whether,” and while."

COMPLEX SENTENCE: SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS “‘That’s one of the most difficult things for immigrants to wealth, because they don’t know what to say when having the excuse of “We can’t afford it” is gone,’ Grubman said” (p. 51). Clause 1 Clause 2 Independent Dependent

Compound-Complex Sentence This type of sentence has more than one part that can stand alone, and at least one that cannot. Conjunctions link the different parts of this sentence. Subordinating Conjunctions Because when the income of parents gets high enough, Conjunctive Adverb Part that cannot stand alone then parenting starts to be harder again” (50). Subject Predicate

Exercises Say if the following sentences are: Simple, compound, complex or compound- complex.

“But then that, of course, requires that you have a set of values, and know how to articulate them, and know how to make them plausible to your child—all of which are really difficult things for anyone to do, under any circumstances, and especially if you have a Ferrari in the driveway, a private jet, and a house in Beverly Hills the size of an airplane hangar” (p. 51). “Sometimes, as a parent, you have to say it only once or twice” (p. 51). “His father taught him the meaning of money and the virtues of independence and hard work” (p. 50). “For most of us, the values of the world we grew up in is not that different from the world we create for our children; that’s not true for someone who becomes very wealthy” (p. 50).

Answers Compound Simple