1. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Sentence Types
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2. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Sentence Types
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-Complex
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3. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
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4. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Simple Sentence
play tennis and swim.
Tom and Mary
Compound Subject Compound Predicate
&
&
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5. Compound Sentence 2 Main Clause+ Coordinators
SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Compound Sentence 2 Main Clause+ Coordinators
We went to party, and
most of us danced all night.
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6. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Compound Sentence
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Subject
Verb
We went to PARTY,
Coordinating
Conjunction
and most of us danced all night .
Subject
Verb
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7. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Tom swims, and Mary plays tennis.
Compound Sentence
Tom
swims,
and
Mary
plays tennis.
Tom swims, and Mary plays tennis.
Clause Clause 2
Independent Independent
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8. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Complex Sentence
1 Main clause+ 1 Subordinate clause+ subordinating conjunction
Since my friend and I wanted to have fun,
we went to party yesterday.
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9. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Complex Sentence
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10. COMPLEX SENTENCE: SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
COMPLEX SENTENCE: SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS
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11. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Compound-Complex Sentence 2 main clause+ 1/more subordinate clause + coordinator
Since we wanted to have fun,
My friend and I went to party yesterday,
and we danced all night.
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12. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Compound-Complex Sentence
Subordinating
Conjunction
Since we wanted to have fun,
Part that cannot stand alone
my friend and I went to party,
Subject
verb
Coordinating
Conjunction
and we danced all night.
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13. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Exercises
Say if the following sentences are:
Simple, compound, complex or compound-complex.

14. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
The bell rang.
Bridget ran the first part of the race, and Tara biked the second part.
He stands at the bottom of the cliff while the climber moves up the rock.
The skier turned and jumped.
Naoki passed the test because he studied hard and understood the material.
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15. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Answers
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-complex
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16. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Because Kayla has so much climbing experience , we asked her to lead our group.
You and I need piano lessons.
I planned to go to the hockey game, but I couldn’t get tickets.
Dorothy likes white water rafting, but she also enjoys kayaking.
There are many problems to solve before this program can be used, but engineers believe that they will be able to solve them soon.
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17. SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Answers
SNS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Complex
Simple
Compound
Compound-complex
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