1. Sentence Types
Simple
Compound
Complex
Compound-Complex

2. “‘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

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

7. 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).

8. 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."

9. 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 Clause 2
Independent Dependent

10. 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

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

12. “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).

13. Answers
Compound
Simple