Compound Sentences
Rules to live by…
Review
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What does every simple sentence contain?
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What do we call a group of words that has
a subject, verb and makes sense?
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A subject and verb that makes sense.
An independent clause
How many independent clauses does a
simple sentence have?
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One
What is a compound sentence
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A compound sentences is a sentence
made up of two complete thoughts.
Each part of the sentence can stand alone
as a complete sentence.
Compound sentences are connected by
two types of connectors, which we will talk
about later.
Compound Sentences
Example of compound sentences:
 The students finished class, and they went to
lunch.
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Kevin did not want to hurt Kathy’s feelings, so he
said nothing about her mistake.
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I want to see my sister soon, for she has been in
Switzerland for two years.
What is the difference
between compound
sentences and SS VV simple
sentences?
Things that are the same.
Simple Sentences
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Can have 2
subjects.
 Can have 2 verbs
Compound Sentences
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Can have 2 subjects
 Can have 2 verbs
What makes them different? The
Formulas
Compound Sentences
Simple Sentences
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2 subjects doing 2 thins at the
same time:
 SS VV
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1 subject is doing on action
and 1 subject is doing a
different action:
 SV SV
Because of this difference a simple sentences with two
subjects and two verbs can not stand alone.
Compare
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S
S
V
The men and women met at the station and
V
went to dinner.
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Simple Sentence
S
V
S
The men met at the station, and the women
V
went to dinner.
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Compound Sentence
Compare
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S
V
V
The ducks and geese squawked and fluttered
their wings.
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Simple Sentence
S
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S
V
S
V
The ducks squawked, and the geese fluttered
their wings.
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Compound Sentence
Compare
V
S V
 Harry and Joe ate ice cream and drank pop.
S
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Simple Sentence
S V
S
V
Harry ate ice cream, and Joe drank pop.
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Compound Sentence
How to combine two
independent clauses
We have two ways
First way…
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A Coordinating Conjunction
A word that is used with a comma to join
two independent clauses
Coordinating Conjunctions
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, for
 , and
 , nor
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, but
 , or
 , yet
 , so
Video
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School house rock
video to remember
you conjunctions!
Examples
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BASEBALL IS MY FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH, BUT
FOOTBALL IS MY FAVORITE SPORT TO PLAY.
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THE CHILDREN RAN ALL THE WAY TO SCHOOL, YET THEY
WERE LATE ANYWAY.
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YOU WILL HAVE TO FINISH THE PROJECT, OR YOUR
GROUP WILL GET A FAILING GRADE
Second way
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Semicolons
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Semicolons { ; } can also be used to join the
two independent clauses of a compound
sentence.
Examples
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Susan loves to swim; her brother likes to
dive.
Jason was highly respected; he was
always such a nice person.
The meeting was over; it was already
midnight.