The document discusses different types of sentences including simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. It provides examples of each sentence type and explains the basic elements that make up each type, such as subjects, predicates, and conjunctions. Key characteristics of different sentence structures are outlined.

1. Sentence Structure: Sentence Types

3. Basic Elements of Every Sentence SUBJECT PREDICATE

4. Basic Elements Mary plays tennis. SUBJECT PREDICATE

5. SIMPLE SENTENCE Mary plays tennis. SUBJECT PREDICATE one subject one predicate

6. Simple Sentence play tennis. Tom and Mary Compound Subject &

7. Simple Sentence play tennis and swim. Tom and Mary Compound Subject Compound Predicate & &

8. SIMPLE SENTENCE with compound subject Tom and Mary play tennis.

9. SIMPLE SENTENCE with compound subject and compound predicate Tom and Mary play tennis and swim.

10. Compound Sentence with Coordinating Conjunctions SUBJECT PREDICATE SUBJECT PREDICATE and

11. Compound Sentence Tom swims, Mary plays tennis. and

12. COMPOUND SENTENCE: COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS F OR A ND N OR B UT O R Y ET S O

13. COMPOUND SENTENCE: COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS Tom swims , and Mary plays tennis. Clause 1 Clause 2 Independent Independent

14. COMPOUND SENTENCE: COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS Tom swims , and Mary plays tennis. Comma before “and” in compound sentences!

15. COMPOUND SENTENCE: CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS MOREOVER HOWEVER OTHERWISE THEREFORE

16. COMPOUND SENTENCE: CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS Bob is handsome ; moreover, he is rich. Clause 1 Clause 2 Independent Independent

17. COMPOUND SENTENCE: CONJUNCTIVE ADVERBS Note: Semicolon before conjunctive adverb and comma after conjunctive adverb! Bob is handsome ; moreover, he is rich.

19. CONJUNCTIVE ADVERB: AT THE BEGINNING, IN THE MIDDLE,AT THE END Bob is handsome ; moreover, he is rich. Bob is handsome; he is, moreover , rich. Bob is handsome; he is rich, moreover .

21. COMPOUND SENTENCE: SEMICOLON Matt has benefited from his exercise program ; he is slim and energetic.

22. Complex Sentence SUBJECT PREDICATE SUBJECT PREDICATE even though

23. Complex Sentence Bob is popular he is ugly. even though

24. COMPLEX SENTENCE: SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS The most common subordinating conjunctions are "after," "although," "as," "because," "before," "how," "if," "once," "since," "than," "that," though," "till," "until," "when," "where," "whether,” and while."

25. COMPLEX SENTENCE: SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS Bob is popular even though he is ugly. Clause 1 Clause 2 Independent Dependent

26. COMPLEX SENTENCE: SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS Even though Bob is ugly, he is popular. Clause 1 Clause 2 Dependent Independent

28. Compound-Complex Sentence Mike is popular he is good looking, because he is not very happy. but

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