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TYPES OF SENTENCES

ENGLISH
 IT IS A TEXTUAL UNIT CONSISTING OF ONE OR MORE
WHAT IS A WORDS THAT ARE GRAMATICALLY LINKED.

SENTENCE?  EX. I WALKED TO SCHOOL.


1. SIMPLE SENTECE

WHAT ARE THE 2. COMPOUND SENTENCE


3. COMPLEX SENTENCE
TYPES OF
4. COMPOUND – COMPLEX
SENTENCES? 5. INCOMPLETE SENTENCE
 CONSIST OF ONLY ONE INDEPENDENT CLAUSE AND
NO DEPENDENT CLAUSES.
 INDEPENDENT CLAUSE – Contains a subject (noun)
and a predicate (verb phrase)

SIMPLE  DEPENDENT CLAUSE – provides information but cannot


stand as a sentence.
SENTENCE
I LIKE TRAINS.
 is composed of at least two independent clauses. It does
not require a dependent clause.
 clauses are joined by a coordinating conjunction.
 Conjunctions are words such as and, but, or, nor, so,
and yet.
COMPOUND
SENTENCE I started on time,
but I arrived late.
 a sentence with one or more dependent clauses and at
least one independent clause is a complex sentence.
 The dependent clause begins with a subordinating
conjunctions : after, although, because, before, while
COMPLEX
SENTENCE I washed the car
after I came home.
 Atleast two independent clauses and atleast one
COMPOUD- dependent clause.

COMPLEX  Compound-complex sentences help us express


longer more complicated thoughts, with more parts
STRUCTURE than other sentences.
 An incomplete sentence, or sentence fragment, is a set
of words which does not form a complete sentence,
either because it does not express a complete
thought or because it lacks some grammatical element,
such as a subject or a verb.
INCOMPLETE  DEPENDENT CLAUSE
SENTENCE
What a life!

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