Compound Sentences

Rules to live by…

Review

What does every simple sentence contain?

A subject and verb that makes sense.

What do we call a group of words that has

a subject, verb and makes sense?

An independent clause

How many independent clauses does a

simple sentence have?

One

What is a compound sentence

A compound sentences is a sentence

made up of two complete thoughts.

Each part of the sentence can stand alone

as a complete sentence.

Compound sentences are connected by

two types of connectors, which we will talk

about later.

Compound Sentences

Example of compound sentences:

The students finished class, and they went to lunch.

Kevin did not want to hurt Kathy’s feelings, so he said nothing about her mistake.

I want to see my sister soon, for she has been in Switzerland for two years.

What is the difference

between compound

sentences and SS VV simple

sentences?

Things that are the same.

Simple Sentences

Can have 2

subjects.

Can have 2 verbs

Compound Sentences

Can have 2 subjects

Can have 2 verbs

What makes them different? The

Formulas

Simple Sentences

2 subjects doing 2 things at the

same time:

SS VV

Compound Sentences

1 subject is doing on action

and 1 subject is doing a

different action:

SV SV

Because of this difference a simple sentences with two

subjects and two verbs can not stand alone.

Compare

The men and women met at the station and

went to dinner.

Simple Sentence

The men met at the station, and the women

went to dinner.

Compound Sentence

S S V

V

S V S

V

Compare

The ducks and geese squawked and fluttered

their wings.

Simple Sentence

The ducks squawked, and the geese fluttered

their wings.

Compound Sentence

S S V V

S V S V

Compare

Harry and Joe ate ice cream and drank pop.

Simple Sentence

Harry ate ice cream, and Joe drank pop.

Compound Sentence

S S V V

S V S V

How to combine two

independent clauses

We have two ways

First way…

A Coordinating Conjunction

A word that is used with a comma to join

two independent clauses

Coordinating Conjunctions

, for

, and

, nor

, but

, or

, yet

, so

Video

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you conjunctions!

Examples

BASEBALL IS MY FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH, BUT

FOOTBALL IS MY FAVORITE SPORT TO PLAY.

THE CHILDREN RAN ALL THE WAY TO SCHOOL, YET THEY

WERE LATE ANYWAY.

YOU WILL HAVE TO FINISH THE PROJECT, OR YOUR

GROUP WILL GET A FAILING GRADE