NBWU 1042

ACADEMIC WRITING
SKILLS

SENTENCE TYPES
WEEK 2/3
 ● Sentences made up paragraphs and by extension, essays
too.
● Well written sentences will help reader understand the
ideas and messages behind the essay.
● Sentences can be written to be simple or more complex,
depending on the simplicity or complexity of the ideas
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ON ● The length of the sentence does not indicate its
complexity. A simple sentence can be written long too.
● When you are reading the sentences in the essay, pay
close attention to how the writer write the sentences. Do
you understand the ideas or messages being written? Does
the sentence confused you? Do you think the sentences
are clearly written?
 ● In any essay, you can see that the writer used all of the
sentence types below.
● Writers use simple sentences to express facts or opinions
strongly.
● Lack of natural resources is one of the results of large ecological
footprints.
● They use compound sentences to link related ideas such as
SENTENCE causes and effects.
TYPES ● Large ecological footprints cause many problems, and it is our
social responsibility to solve them.
● Complex sentences have one independent clause and at
least one dependent clause to explain connections between
ideas.
● Because resources are readily accessible in developed countries
like the United States, people in these countries tend to have
large ecological footprints.
Independent &
Dependent
Clause
SIMPLE
SENTENCE
SIMPLE
SENTENCE
 ● Now let’s look at the essay that we have read previously.
● Try to find the simple sentences used in the essay.
REVIEWING ● What are the subject(s) and verb(s) of these sentences?
● What are the idea shared in these sentences?
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SENTENCES
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 ● Write two simple sentences about one of the topics
below:
● Youth and e-Sports
● Monsoon season
● Indoor plants
EXERCISE ● YouTuber as profession
● Example
● Youth today are more interested in joining e-Sports.
● e-Sports has become more popular among the youth today.
COMPOUND
SENTENCE
● Coordinating conjunctions can be remembered using this acronym:
FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
● Not all sentences which use coordinating conjunctions are
considered compound sentences.
● Compound sentence will need to have two ideas instead of one.
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SENTENCE
 ● Now let’s look at the essay that we have read previously.
● Try to find the coordinating conjunctions used in the
REVIEWING sentences.
● FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so).
● How are these conjunctions used in the sentences?
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COMPOUND
SENTENCES

If a sentence uses both subordinating conjunctions and coordinating conjunctions, it is called a compound-complex
sentence.
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COMPOUND
SENTENCES
 ● Write two compound sentences that about one of the topics below:
● Youth and e-Sports
● Monsoon season
● Indoor plants
● YouTuber as profession
● Example
● Indoor plants can help people being more calm and it can also make
EXERCISE the environment cleaner.
● Careful decision must be made in choosing indoor plants or it may
cause some harmful effects to the pets.
● Youth today believed that e-Sports has potential, so they have
practiced to be more competitive in the sport.
● e-Sports has become more popular among the youth today and it has
also been accepted
COMPLEX
SENTENCE ● Subordinator can also be called subordinating conjunctions.
● Subordinating conjunctions served many purpose to connect
independent and dependent clause together.
● A complex sentence will always use one or more subordinating
conjunctions.
Subordinating
Conjunctions
● If a sentence uses both subordinating conjunctions and coordinating
conjunctions, it is called a compound-complex sentence.
 ● Now let’s look at the essay that we have read previously.
● Try to find the complex sentences used in the essay.
● What are the subject(s) and verb(s) of these
REVIEWING sentences/clauses?
● What are subordinating conjunctions used in these
sentences?
● What are the ideas shared in these sentences?
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SENTENCES

If a sentence uses both subordinating conjunctions and coordinating conjunctions, it is called a compound-complex
sentence.
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SENTENCES
 ● Write two complex sentences that about one of the
topics below:
● Youth and e-Sports
● Monsoon season
● Indoor plants
● YouTuber as profession
EXERCISE
● Example
● Because youth today believed that e-Sports has potential, they
have been practicing to be more competitive in the sport.
● Although e-Sports has become more popular among the youth
today, its coverage by the media has not been widespread.