Clauses:

1. Clauses: Not Santa!!

2. Independent Clauses: • Has a SUBJECT and a VERB, and can stand by itself as a COMPLETE sentence. • Ex. Matthew passed the basketball.

3. Dependent Clause: Key Word • Depends on a buddy to be complete. Has a SUBJECT and a VERB, but it is not Strong!!! It is wimpyand can’t stand alone! • (Subordinate) • Key words:

4. Examples: Key Words • Since Ms. C. was happy, • Because • Although • If • When • As • Before

5. More Examples: • While • That • Elevator test. *Cliffhanger. • When Mr. Benzel laughed, everyone joined in.

6. Practice #1 • Ms. C. loves her students. • Since they went to the skate park. • Tag, you’re it! • Who is at the door? • Because we were late.

7. Practice #1 Cont. • If everyone was feeling awesome. • That were opened by little kids. • When we start class. • I laughed.

8. Simple Sentence: • Has a subject and a verb, and is one independent clause. Ex. Austin laughed at the joke.

9. Simple Sentence Cont.: • Other simple sentences: • Onesubject and twoverbs. Ex. Kennaran and jumped in track. • Twosubjects and oneverb. Ex. Gage and Garrett rode in Trump’s elevator Rules: No comma with conjunction. Always one.

10. Compound Sentence: • Has twoindependent clauses. • Has twosubjects and twoverbs. • Two complete sentences joined together by: • *A conjunction; Ex: and, but, for, no, or, yet, so! • *Semi colon ; • *Or colon : • Rules: • Always, conj, Always 2S2V

11. Compound sentences cont: • Ex: • We went to dinner. • We went to a movie. • We went to dinner and a movie • We went to a dinner: We also went to a movie. • Tyler talked and laughed. • Tyler talked to his friends, and they laughed.

12. Compound Sentences cont: Ex: We went out to dinner,and then we went to a movie. • Did you and Molly walk or ride the bus? • Rain fell; Spring is upon us. Combine: I like coffee. I like hot tea. Simple: Compound

13. Sentence combining • Sentence combining: • Use transition words: • Also, next, and… • Add words. • Eliminate words.

14. Sentence combining • The basketball was blue. • The basketball was also red. • It was snazzy. • The player picked it up. • The player was strong. • The player was extremely strong.

15. The extremely strong player picked up the snazzy blue and red basketball.

16. Sentence Combining • The park was full. • It was a skate park. • The skaters were skating. • They were anxious. • They were waiting their turn.

17. Sentence Combining • Faith likes to sing,. • She sings loud. • She sings with confidence. • Her voice is strong.

18. Review: simple and compound • Chris and Emilio were kind to each other. • Akemi is a master ninja, but Molly is close! • Amber and Sam laughed and joked at lunch.

19. Review simple and Compound • The students studied: they passed their test. • We love peanut butter and jelly.

20. Sentence Combining • We won the game. • The game was riveting. • The crowd cheered. • The crowd cheered loudly.

21. We went to the park, because we had the day off. • Since we were late, we were marked tardy.

22. Although we knew better, we still broke the rule. • We still broke the rule, although we knew better.

23. Kyndal or Katelyn will love their gift. • Teeth clenching, Jane tried to be strong and have guts of steel. • Zelda loves math and she is good at it.

24. We won the game! • When we win, it feels like an accomplishment. • Although we forgot our tickets

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26. Simple ~Compound Practice: • Jared and Jake ran down the hall. • Marcos sang and danced at the competition. • Mr. Benzel laughed at the funny joke. • Chad likes to run, but Derek likes to do the long jump. • Chandler and Emily walked down the hall: other kids ran.

27. Practice: Simple or compound and why. • Skye and Caitlyn will love their gift. • Zelda loves math, and she is good at it. • We won the game! • Tanner walked and talked outside.

28. Practice: 5. Iris is the leader for fifth period, and Keana is the one for fourth period. 6. Teeth clenching, Jane tried to be strong and have guts of steel.

29. Practice Continued: • When we win, it feels like an accomplishment. • Although we forgot our tickets, we got into the concert anyway. • Max, our leader, is a good student.

30. Practice continued: • If we are strong, we can overcome any challenge. • We need to break up a big project into little steps. • We liked the movie, but we were glad it was over.

31. Practice Continued: • I want a hamburger or a cheeseburger. • All clauses have a ______ or _______. • Simple _______. • Compound __________. • Complex _____ ______.

32. Complex Sentence ~ • Has oneindependent clause, and one or moredependent clauses. Ex: Because we had the day off, we went to the park. *uses a comma • Uses key words: Because, since… • The clauses can switch places and still make sense.

33. Practice #2 - Clauses • Underline dependent clauses once and independent clauses twice. • After we won the game, we all went out for pizza. • When the class claps for the leader, we make them feel good.

34. Practice #2 – Clauses Cont. • Since there is no homework on Friday, everyone is excited. • ______________________________, we still had a good time. (Fill in the blanks.)

35. Review: • Cole gave Porter a mini high five. • Since Ms. C. could not give each person coffee, she gave them a compliment instead. • Megan and Lauren make awesome study partners. • James does an awesome happy dance. • Jake made a spooky whisper, and Calvin heard him.

36. Clauses: • Simple? • Compound? • Complex? Subjects and verbs? • Simple: • _________ • _________ • _________

37. Clauses Continued: • Compound: • ________________ • Complex: • ________________

38. Work day: • Worksheet #1 • Sentence Combining: • We won the game. The game was riveting. At the end the crowd cheered. The crowd cheered loudly. • Complex or compound:

39. Work day: Worksheet #2 page:151-152 • Simple or compound: • I ate salad and pizza for lunch. • Combine sentences for COMPOUND: • Dennis plays sports. He studies hard too.

40. Work day: Worksheet #3 page:155 • Independent clause once, Dependent clause twice • While I was away, Darryl looked after my dog. • Darryl looked after my dog while I was away.