Sentence Types

• 1. Simple Sentence
• A simple sentence is also called an independent clause. A simple
sentence contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete
thought.
• EX. The dog barked.
• The baby cried
• A simple sentence can have a compound subject and a compound verb
• Ex.
• The dog and the cat live in a big house.
• The dog and the cat eat and sleep together.
• 2. Compound Sentence
• Two simple sentences (two independent clauses) are joined by a
conjunction (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so)
• Ex.
• They spoke to him in Spanish,but he responded in English.
• Ecuador is a multicultural country, and it is one of the 16 megadiverse
countries in the world.
• Can you think of other examples of compound sentences?
• A)She is going to the movies, or she is going to the mall.
• B)Juan is going to play, but it is raining.
• C)I listen to music in my computer, but sometimes, I prefer to do it on
the radio.
• 3. Complex Sentences
• A complex sentence is an independent clause joined by at least one
dependent clauses. Ex. A dependent clause has a subject, a verb and
a complement, but it doesn’t have complete meaning by itself.
• After eating lunch at the Cheese Factory, Tomás went home
Dependent Clause Independent Clause

• A complex sentence always has a subordinator (as, because, since,

after, although, when)
• When a sentence begins with a subordinator, a comma is needed
after the dependent clause.
• However, if the independent clause comes first, no comma is needed.
• Tomás went home after eating at Cheese fctory
• Can you think of other examples of complex sentences?
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• 4. Compound- Complex Sentence
• A compound-complex sentence has two independent clauses and at
least one dependent clause.
• Ex.
• After the soccer players lost their game, they joined their other
teammates for lunch, and they went to the movies.

• Can you think of other examples of compound-complex sentence?