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Compound Sentences

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.

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Compound Sentences

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  1. Compound Sentences Rules to live by…

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. What is the difference between compound sentences and SS VV simple sentences?

  6. 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

  7. What makes them different? The Formulas Simple Sentences • 2 subjects doing 2 thins 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.

  8. Compare S S V V S S V V • 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

  9. Compare S V V S S S V V • The ducks and geese squawked and fluttered their wings. • Simple Sentence • The ducks squawked, and the geese fluttered their wings. • Compound Sentence

  10. Compare V S S V S V S V • Harry and Joe ate ice cream and drank pop. • Simple Sentence • Harry ate ice cream, and Joe drank pop. • Compound Sentence

  11. How to combine two independent clauses We have two ways

  12. First way… A Coordinating Conjunction A word that is used with a comma to join two independent clauses

  13. Coordinating Conjunctions • , for • , and • , nor • , but • , or • , yet • , so

  14. Video • School house rock video to remember you conjunctions!

  15. 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

  16. Second way • Semicolons • Semicolons { ; } can also be used to join the two independent clauses of a compound sentence.

  17. Examples Susan loves to swim; her brother likes to dive. Jason was highly respected; he was always such a nice person. The meeting was over; it was already midnight.

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