Cornell Notes
Name, class,
period, date
Title of the notes
What is the subject
of the notes?
Notes: Take them any way
that makes sense to you.
(Concrete/Abstract would go
here.) After the class, go
back and highlight key facts
or star important info.
Questions generated from the notes
or main ideas in the notes
Summary of notes
Why take Cornell Notes?
• Questions help you study.
• Who went back to their notes before the
compound sentence test?
• Doing so may have saved several of you from
having to retake.
• What is the purpose of the summary?
• Make sure you understand the info in the
notes.
Use Cornell Notes to take notes on
Complex Sentences
• Prep your notes.
• Draw a line down from the top line 1/3 of the
way over, leaving space at the bottom (3-4
lines) for the summary.
• Label with your name, class, period, and date.
• Put Complex Sentences as your title.
Randi Lundgren
English II
3rd Period
1-13-14
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Complex Sentences
• Complex sentences have ONE independent
clause and ONE or MORE dependant clauses.
• For something to be considered a clause, it
must have a subject and verb in it. If it only
has one of these, it is a phrase, not a clause
(Infinitive phrase, prepositional phrase,
adverbial phrase).
• Don’t get clauses and phrases mixed up.
Take a card and crease and tear it
hamburger style.
• Take a card and write P on one side and C on
the other.
• On the other write I on one side and D on the
other.
Determine which of the following examples are
clauses and which are phrases.
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While jogging
If you buy a mouse a cookie
Between Joe and Mary
When I leave school
After the monkey died
To go to work
Violently in his sleep
With Mickey and Minnie
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P
C
P
C
C
P
P
P
Determine which of the following clauses are
independent or dependant.
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I jog daily.
If I die young.
When the time is up.
I want a ride to the store.
After the movie was over.
The homework was tough.
With the hero winning.
I need a hero.
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I
D
D
I
D
I
D
I
Many sentences have both a
dependant and independent clause.
• Kathy stayed home because she had a fever.
• If the weather is nice, Sally will go to the park.
• I will sleep until the alarm rings.
Do not confuse an introductory phrase
with a dependant clause.
• While running quickly, Paul got a cramp.
• Dependant clauses often begin with a subordinating
conjunction: If, because, although, unless
• I love to cook although it takes time.
• The girls won’t come unless you call them.
• The turkey is not thawed because we forgot to take it
out of the freezer.
Remember, a complex sentence has
one independent clause and one or
more dependant clauses.
• I will go to the store after I make a shopping list.
• When he eats his food, the dog gets meat chunks all
over his face.
• Since she is my closest friend, I will buy something
special for her birthday.
Punctuation
• If the dependant clause comes before the
independent clause, use a comma to separate
the two clauses.
• No comma is needed if the dependant clause
comes after the independent clause.
• Therefore, there are two Complex Sentence
formulae: D,I and ID
In the Formula Reference Section, under the next
section, write our third set of formula.
Simple Sentence
S V
SS V
S VV
SS VV
Complex Sentence
D, I
ID
Compound Sentence
I, cI
I; I
Where do commas go in these sentences,
and what formula are being used?
• My dad will be happy if I get good grades this
semester.
• Since Jason is a good student he will probably get
all As.
• I never would have believed it if I had not seen it.
• When you have decided please let me know.
Bell work: Addition
• Instead of providing vocabulary words for you to
guess at the meaning, we are going to work on
replacements. I will have a word or two bold,
italicized and underlined, and you need to come
up with a better more scholarly word to replace
it. Also, when you see “you” used, come up with
a way to replace it.
• So if the sentence says: It is big. You might say…
• It is enormous, immense, colossal, mammoth,
expansive, titanic…
• If it says: When you go home… you might say…
When a person goes home…
1-13-14
• After they skated the guys went out for pizza.
• Wonce you finish you’re plan show me how it gone
work.
• The bad man left me a lone win he finish robin me.
1-13-14
• After they skated, the gentlemen went out for pizza.
• D, I
• Once one finishes his plan, he should demonstrate
how it will work.
• D, I (D)
• The wicked man left me alone when he finished
robbing me.
1-14-14
• Whenever you see hour light’s on we at home.
• Even if we got a good team we may not win.
• Candy wear a amazing hat, because she want
too look good.
1-14-14
• Whenever one sees our lights on, we are at
home.
• D, I
• Even if we have a superb team, we may not win.
• D, I
• Candy wore an incredible hat because she
wanted to look stunning.
• ID
1-15-14
• Shanna lookeded happy ounce her test was over.
• While the cold snow genteley fall, the streets
were silent.
• Whenever Ryan smile at me my heart melt.
1-15-14
• Shanna looked elated once her test was over.
• ID
• While the frigid snow gently fell, the streets
remained silent.
• D, I
• Whenever Ryan smiles at me, my heart melts.
• D, I