1. Introduction to Sentence Structure

2. I am glad to be back in school free time makes me uneasy.
Run-on

3. I am glad to be back in school, free time makes me uneasy.
Comma splice

4. I am glad to be back in school. Free time makes me uneasy.
Two independent clauses, simple sentences.

5. I am glad to be back in school, for free time makes me uneasy.
Compound sentence

6. I am glad to be back in school because free time makes me uneasy.
Complex sentence

7. Clause = subject and predicate

8. Subject The person, place, or thing that the clause is about
The doer of the action in the clause.

9. Predicate Comes from the same Latin roots as “Preach”
Describes the action of the subject
At minimum, a predicate is a verb, but often there is extra information in a sentence

10. Independent Clause
A clause that doesn’t need anything to complete its thought.
It is a sentence.

11. Dependent Clause
Has a subject and a verb, but it has NO COMPLETE THOUGHT.
It depends on an independent clause for its complete thought.