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Sentence Types in English

There are three main types of sentences in English: simple sentences which contain one subject and verb expressing a single thought, compound sentences which contain two or more independent clauses joined with a conjunction, and complex sentences which contain one independent clause joined to one or more dependent clauses that cannot stand alone.

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Sentence Types in English

There are three main types of sentences in English: simple sentences which contain one subject and verb expressing a single thought, compound sentences which contain two or more independent clauses joined with a conjunction, and complex sentences which contain one independent clause joined to one or more dependent clauses that cannot stand alone.

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Sentence Types in English–Simple,

Compound, Complex

Simple Sentences
 A simple sentence contains a subject and a verb.
 It expresses a single complete thought that can stand on its own.
Examples:
1. The baby cried for food.
There is a subject and a verb that expresses a complete thought
2. Professor Maple’s intelligent students completed and turned in their homework.
A simple sentence does not necessarily have to be short. It can have adjectives. In this case,
there are two verbs “completed” and “turned in.” However, the sentence expresses one
complete thought and therefore is a simple sentence.
3. Megan and Ron ate too much and felt sick.
Although there are two subjects and two verbs, it is still a simple sentence because both
verbs share the same subjects and express one complete thought.

Compound Sentences
 A compound sentence has two independent clauses. An independent clause is a part of a
sentence that can stand alone because it contains a subject and a verb and expresses a
complete thought.

 Basically, a compound contains two simple sentences.


 These independent clauses are joined by a conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).Fanboys

Examples:
1. The shoplifter had stolen clothes, so he ran once he saw the police.
Both sides of the conjunction “so” are complete sentences. “The shoplifter had stolen clothes”
can stand alone and so can “he ran once he saw the police.” Therefore, this is a compound
sentence.
2. They spoke to him in Spanish, but he responded in English.
This is also a compound sentence that uses a conjunction to separate two individual clauses

Complex Sentences
 A complex sentence is an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. A
dependent clause either lacks a subject or a verb or has both a subject and a verb that does
not express a complete thought.

 A complex sentence always has a subordinating conjunction (as, because, since, after, although,
when) or relative pronouns (who, that, which).

Examples:
1. After eating lunch at The Cheesecake Factory, Tim went to the gym to exercise.
The independent clause is ‘Tim went to the gym to exercise.” The subordinating clause before
it is dependent on the main, independent clause. If one were to say “after eating lunch at The
Cheesecake Factory,” it would be an incomplete thought.

2. Opinionated women are given disadvantages in societies that privilege male


accomplishments.
The subject is “opinionated women” and the verb is “are given.” The first part of the sentence
“opinionated women are given disadvantages in societies” is an independent clause that
expresses a complete thought. The following “that privilege male accomplishments” is a relative
clause that describes which types of societies.

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