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Sentence Structure
Group Three
What is Sentence Structure? Sentence structure is
1.SIMPLE SENTENCE
What are the 4 Types of 2.the way a sentence
COMPOUND is
SENTENCE
English Sentences? arranged,
3. COMPLEX SENTENCE
grammatically.
4. COMPOUND- The
sentence structure
COMPLEX SENTENCE of
your writing includes
where the noun and
verb fall within an
individual sentence. ...
In this case, the
sentence structure is
"Subject, verb, object."
SIMPLE SENTENCE
A simple sentence
Examples of simplecontains
1. Im happy. clause.
sentences:
one independent
2. Robert
Whats doesnt eat meat.
an independent
3. My brother and I went
clause?
Itsto thesubject
one mall last night.by
followed
4.
oneThis
verbnew laptop
or verb phrase. It
computer
expresses has already
a single idea.
crashed twice.
 COMPOUND SENTENCE
Examples of Compound Sentence
1. ImA compound
happy, but my sentence has two
kids are always
independent
complaining. clauses joined by a linking
word (and,
2. Robert but,
doesnt eator, so, so
meat, yet, however).
Barbara made a
special vegetarian dish for him.
3. MyEach independent
brother and I wentclause
to the could be a
mall last
sentence
night, butby
weitself,
didntbut
buywe connect them
anything.
4. This new with a computer
laptop linking word:
has already
crashed twice, and I have no idea why.
 COMPLEX SENTENCE
1.A Im
complex sentence
happy, even has one
though I dont
make much money.
independent clause and
2. Robert, a friend Ive known sinceone
orhigh
more dependent
school, clauses.
doesnt eat meat.
3. My brother and I went to the mall
A dependent clause cannot
last night, while my sister stayed
be
a complete sentence by itself.
home and studied.
COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE
Example of Compound-Complex
A compound-complex
Sentence
Im happy, even though I dont make much
money, but my kids are always complaining
sentence contains 3 or
since we cant afford to buy the newest toys.
more clauses: 2
Independent clauses: Im happy and my
kids are always complaining
independent and at least
Dependent clauses: even though I dont make
much money and since we cant afford to buy
1 dependent clause.
the newest toys
Linking word: but