ENGLISH 6

1. DIFFERENT TYPES
OF
SENTENCES

2. SIMPLE SENTENCE
- a sentence that has a
subject, a verb, and gives a
complete thought.
Subject – the doer of the action
Verb – the action in the sentence

3. Examples:
 Alex played football.
 The cat sleeps on the grass.
 He is handsome.
 The cats are fat.
subject verb

4. COMPOUND SENTENCE
- a sentence that has at least two
independent clauses joined by a
comma (,), semicolon (;), or a
conjunction.
- an independent clause is a clause
that can stand alone.
- a conjunction is a connector used
to connect words, phrases, and clauses
(for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so, because,
although, that, even though and yet)

5. Examples:
I drink green tea, but they drink coffee.
I don’t want to drink, I don’t want to eat.
The boys sang and the girls danced.
The clause that can stand alone
as a sentence.
The clause that can stand
alone as a sentence.
conjunction

6. COMPLEX SENTENCE
- a sentence that has an independent
clause and at least one dependent clause.
It is joined by a subordinating conjunction
(after, although, because, before, even
though, however, if, since, so that, unless,
when, while, whenever) or comma.

7. Examples:
You will definitely lose if you don’t try.
Although my friends begged me, I chose not to go to
the reunion.
When the cake is brown, take it out the even.
independent clause dependent clause
subordinating conjunction

8. COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE
- is a sentence with two or
more independent clause and at
least one dependent clause.

9. Examples:
Although I like to go camping,
I haven’t had the time to go lately,
and I haven’t found anyone to go with.
Because I paid attention, I got an A on the
test and I was so happy.
dependent clause
independent clause
independent clause

10. Identify the type of the following sentences.
1. I went home because it was getting late, but I
had to wait on the porch until my mom got
home anyway.
(Compound-Complex)
2. Many people enjoyed the movie; however,
William did not.
(Complex)
3. I want to lose weight, yet I eat chocolate
daily.
(Compound)
4. Raja reads the story silently.
(Simple)
5. Mary was out of milk, so she went to the
store.
(Compound)