9/16/2015 Agenda!

Learning Target: I can correctly identify

and punctuate the four types of sentences.
1)

Brain Buzzer: None. Just get out your

computer and go to your Google Drive

2)

Compound-complex review

3)

POD Winner-Take-All Mega

Challenge

Compound-Complex example:

Ollie ran to the store, and he

bought some bread after his
mother asked him to go.
OR

After his mother asked him to go,

Ollie ran to the store, and he
bought some bread.

NOW WRITE YOUR OWN EXAMPLE OF A

COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE.
Mega challenge:
1) Grab a whiteboard, Expo marker,
eraser, and a few of your friends.
2) Sit next to each other in a small POD.
3) You need to pick a spokesperson for
your group, but each person in the
group needs to write the answer
down on their own whiteboard.

1) What is a phrase?

2) What makes a complex sentence?

3) What makes a compound sentence?

4) Write an independent clause about

school that is correctly punctuated.

5) Write a dependent clause.

6) Write a correctly punctuated

complex sentence.

7) Write two different types of

compound sentences that are
both correctly punctuated.

8) Which of the following complex

sentences is written correctly?
A) After the party; I went to sleep.
B) After the party, I went to sleep.
C) After the party I went to sleep.
D) After the party. I went to sleep.

9) Which of the following compound

sentences is punctuated correctly?
A) I said I loved her; she laughed in
my face.
B) I said I loved her, but she laughed
in my face.
C) I said I loved her; She laughed in
my face.
D) I said I loved her but, she laughed
in my face.

9) Write a correctly punctuated

compound-complex sentence?

10) Write a correctly punctuated

complex sentence that begins with
an independent clause.

11) Can an independent clause begin

with an AAAWWUBBIS word?

12) Can two dependent clauses and a

comma ever be a complete
sentence?

13) What three things do all sentences

have to have?

14) What is wrong with the following

sentence?
John drank a cherry vanilla coke; and
Robin drank just a cherry coke.

15) What is wrong with the following

sentence?

After the football game there will be a

Homecoming dance.

16) What is wrong with the following

sentence?
Lance is coming home after the football
game, because he needs his rest.

LAST QUESTION: 6 POINTS (2 each)

Make these groups of words into a

complex sentence, a compound sentence,
and a compound-complex sentence. You
may add words or punctuation of you
need to. You may also not use all the
words below if you dont need to.

Kenny stole my lunch.

I punched his face.
The cop arrested me.