1. Sentence Types
Everything you’ve always wanted to know about Simple and Compound Sentences.

2. Simple Sentence
A simple sentence consists of one main (independent) clause
An independent clause is a related group of words with a subject and a predicate that can stand alone as a sentence

3. More simple sentences:
Examples:
The zebra fell into the lifeboat.
I had a wet, trembling, half-drowned, heaving and coughing three-year-old Bengal tiger in my lifeboat.
Jim and Sarah went to the movie.
The mice scurried around the house.

4. More simple sentences…
Kate dropped the pizza on the floor.
Now you write two more simple sentences on your sheet.

5. Compound Sentence
A compound sentence has two or more independent clauses.
These two independent clauses are joined by:
A coordinating conjunction, OR
A semi-colon (;)

6. Remember coordinating conjunctions?F A N B O Y S

7. Examples of compound sentences:
The boy was adrift on the Pacific Ocean for many months and he continued to hope for rescue.
The boy worried about the tiger’s ferocity, but the tiger got seasick easily.

8. More Examples of Compound Sentences:
Jon and Sarah went to the movie and they went out for pizza afterwards.
The movie was very entertaining so Jon and Sarah discussed it for hours.

9. Another example…
*add another independent clause to the following simple sentence to make it a compound sentence:
Kate dropped the pizza on the floor, ______ _______________________________.

10. Write two more compound sentences in the space provided on your handout.