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Compound sentences
The second type of sentence is the compound sentence. This sentence is composed of
two simple sentences joined together by a comma and a joining word (coordinating
conjunction). We could also describe a compound sentence as two independent clauses
joined by a conjunction.There are seven coordinating conjunctions:

and
but
so
or
for
nor
yet.

Example

Diagramming sentences is a way to visualize how the different parts of a sentence fit
together. The subject of a clause goes in one slot, the verb in another, and so on.
Words that modify another word are attached to the word they modify. The method we
use to attach them indicates what the relationship is between them.
The system was perfected in the nineteenth century by Kellog and Reed. It is the
same system (with minor modifications) used in Kolln and Funk's Understanding
English Grammar, 7th edition, which we are using in our English 328 class.

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