SIMPLE,COMPLEX AND
COMPOUND SENTENCES
Class : 10th
Subject: English
Developed By : Rakeh Kumar
School Name: G.H.S. Jabbowal
(KPT)
ghsJabbowal.kpt@gmail.com
Student :Pawandeep
Prabhdeep Kaur
Manoreet Kaur
Kushwant Dutt
THERE ARE THREE TYPES SENTANCE
1-SIMPLE
2-COMPLEX
3-COMPOUND
IN THIS CHAPTER WE SHALL DEAL WITH
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN A SIMPLE
SENTENCE AND A COMPLEX SENTENCE .
1.SIMPLE SENTENCE
A SIMPLE SENTENCE HAS ONLY ONE
SUBJECT AND ONE PREDICATE . IT HAS
ONLY ONE CLAUSE IN IT .
LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES:
MOHAN WORKS HARD .
COMPLEX SENTENCE :
STUDY THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES :
EACH OF SENTENCES GIVEN ABOVE OF ONE MAIN
CLAUSE AND ONE DEPENDENT CLAUSE AS SHOWN
IN THE TABLE BELOW.
WE DO NOT KNOW WHEN THE LETTER WILL COME .
COMPLEX SENTENCE :
The boy who won the match.
KINDS OF SUBORDINATE CLAUSES
NOUN CLAUSE
ADJECTIVE CLAUSE
ADVERB CLAUSE
NOUN CLAUSE
A CLAUSE THAT PERFORMS THE FUNCTION
OF A NOUN IS CALLED
A NOUN CLAUSE.
SHE TOLD US THAT SHE HAD COME TOMMROW.
ADJECTIVE CLAUSE
A CLAUSE THAT FUNCTIONS LIKE AN
ADJECTIVE IS CALLED AN ADJECTIVE
CLAUSE.
AN
ADJECTIVE
CLAUSE
QUALIFIES SOME NOUN OR PRONOUN IN
THE MAIN CLAUSE OR [RINCIPAL CLAUSE.
ADJECTIVE CLAUSES CAN BE DIVIDED
INTO TWO TYPES AS EXPLAINED BELOW.
KINDS OF ADJECTIVE CLAUSES:
Introduced by Relative Pronoun
Introduced by Relative Adverb
INTRODUCED BY RELATIVE
PRONOUN
INTRODUCED BY SOME RELATIVE PRONOUN.
SOMETIMES A PREPOSITION PRECEDES THE
RELATIVE PRONOUN.
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD.
INTRODUCED BY RELATIVE
ADVERB
INTRODUCED BY SOME RELATIVE ADVERB.
THAT IS THE REASON WHY IT RAINS SO MUCH THERE.
ADVERB CLAUSE
AN ADVERB CLAUSE IS ONE WHICH PERFORMS THE
FUNCATION OF AN ADVERB IN RELATION TO SOME
WORD IN THE PRINCIPAL CLAUSE. IT MODIFIES A
VERB, AN ADJECTIVE, OR AN ADVERB IN IT. IT
INDICATES TIME, PLACE, REASON, MANNER,
CONTRAST, OR CONDITION.
ADVERB CLAUSE SHOWING PLACE:
WE KNOW WHERE SHE LIVES.
COMPUND SENTENCE
A COMPOUND SENTENCE IS MADE UP OF AT LEAST
TWO CLAUSES. ALL ITS CLAUSES ARE OF EQUAL
RANK, AND ARE CALLED CO-ORDINATE CLAUSES.
THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE ARE COMPOUND
SENTENCES.
HE HAD A BATH AND WATCHED T.V.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE
COMPLEX SENTENCE AND
THE COMPOUND SENTENCE
BOTH THE COMPLEX SENTENCE AND THE
COMPOUND SENTENCE ARE MADE UP OF
LEAST TWO CLAUSES. THEN, WHAT IS THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM/ THE CLAUSES
OF A COMPOUND SENTENCE ARE OF EQUAL
IMPORTANCE, WHEREAS THIS IS NOT SO IN
THE CASE OF A COMPLEX SENTENCE. IN A
COMPLEX SENTENCE, ONE CLAUSE IS MORE
IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHER.
STUDY THE FOLLOWING
CAREFULLY:
COMPOUND SENTENCE
HE WORKED HARD BUT HE DID NOT
SUCCEED
CO-ORDINATE CLAUSE
CLAUSE
CO-ORDINATE
CO-ORDINATING CONJUNCTION
HERE THE TWO CLAUSES ARE
OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE
COMPLEX SENTENCE
HE DID NOT SUCCEED THOUGH HE DID NOT
SUCCEED
PRINCIPAL CLAUSE
SUBORDINATE
CLAUSE
SUBORDINATING
CONJUNCTION
COMPOUND SENTENCE
HERE THE PRINCIPAL CLAUSE IS
MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE
SUBORDINATE CLAUSE.
EXERCISE
FILL IN BLANKS
1._________ WORKS HARD .
2.WE DO NOT _______ WHEN THE LETTER WILL COME
3.THE MAN ____ WHOM HE LIVED KILLED HIM.
4. WE KNOW _________ SHE LIVES.
5.WHERE THERE IS A WILL, _______ IS A WAY
ANSWERS
1.MOHAN WORKS HARD .
2.WE DO NOT KNOW WHEN THE LETTER WILL COME
3.THE MAN WITH WHOM HE LIVED KILLED HIM.
4. WE KNOW WHERE SHE LIVES.
5.WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY
Bibliography
High School English Grammar &
Composition
by ‘WREN & MARTIN’
Grammar & Composition for Class 10th ,
P.S.E.B
www.heatherannimation.com
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