This document discusses the four types of sentences in English: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. It provides examples of each type and explains their structures. Simple sentences can follow five basic patterns: subject-verb, subject-verb-object, subject-verb-complement, subject-verb-object-object, and subject-verb-object-complement. Compound sentences join two independent clauses. Complex sentences have one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. The document also covers dependent clause types and sentence connectors.

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Academic Writing
English sentences

2. 4 types of sentences
• Simple sentence
• Compound sentence
• Complex sentence
• Compound-complex sentence
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3. 4 types of sentences
• Simple: 5 sentence patterns
• Compound: 2 or more independent
clauses (fanboys)
• Complex: independent + 1 or more
dependent
• Compound-complex sentence: 2 or
more independent + 1 or more
dependent
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4. 5 basic simple sentence patterns
1. SV
2. SVO
3. SVC
4. SVOO
5. SVOC
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5. 5 basic simple sentence patterns
1.SV
- I go to school
- Technologies have developed very fast in the past 100 years
- More and more people work from home and study from home with
the development of computer technology
2. SVO
- I study English.
- others say that technology can solve these problems.
- some people think that technological progress has brought negative
effects to the humanity
3.SVC
- I am a student. / I am tired.
- the solution in these problems is everyone accepts a simpler way of
life.
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6. 4. SVOO
- He gave me a book. / He gave a book to me.
- technological progress has brought negative effects
to the humanity.
5. SVOC
- The stylist made me more beautiful. / they elected
him the president.
- Technology has made our life more convenient.
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7. Compound sentences
​​A compound sentence is a sentence that connects two independent
clauses, typically with a coordinating conjunction like and or but.
• For – He couldn't go home, for he had no place to go.
• And – I took a taxi, and she drove home.
• Nor – He didn't want help, nor did she offer it.
• But – I wanted to go late, but she wanted to go on time.
• Or – She cooked dinner, or she went out to a restaurant.
• Yet – She owned a car, yet she didn't know how to drive
it.
• So – She had to go, so she called a friend to drive her.
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8. Complex sentence: 3 types of dependent clauses
A complex sentence is a sentence with one
independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
1. Adverb clause: tell why, how, when, or where
something occurs.
If chores in the house are done by machines, women
will be free from housework.
2. Adjective clause: describe people or things
Teachers, who spend more time with students at school
than their parents, will have more influence on them.
3. Noun clause
Teachers know what is of students’ interest and thus
can design the curriculum that benefit them.
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Connecting sentences
• Connectors: Conjunctions and transitions
• Use subordinators to connect clauses: ALTHOUGH,
WHEN, AS, BECAUSE, UNTIL,…=> make complex
sentences
• Use coordinators FANBOYS to connect sentences:
FOR, AND, NOR, BUT, OR, YET and SO => make
compound sentences
• To begin a sentence, use transition words instead: IN
ADDITION, FURTHERMORE, ALSO, HOWEVER, ON
THE OTHER HAND, THEREFORE, AS A RESULT, TIME
ADVERBS...=> connect sentences

10. Practice
1. Analyse sentence patterns.
2. Combine simple sentence to make a compound and
complex sentence.
3. Sentence correction.
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