Sentence Types

The dog chased the cat.

My younger sister is annoying.

Last week, we had a minimum day on Tuesday.

NOTE: Dependent clauses start with sub-ordinating conjunctions (while, since, because, when, after, although, etc.) and have a noun AND a verb.

while I was sleeping

because it was summer

since we are learning online

once we go back to school

when it began to snow

I went to the store, but it was closed due to a power outage.

Tuesday was a minimum day, so students got out of school early.

Either my volume was turned down too low, or your volume was muted.

Students got out of school early because it was a minimum day.

When I got to the store, it was closed because of a power outage.

I decided to stay home since it was raining.

After it stopped raining, I went for a walk, but it soon started to rain again.

I jumped up when the phone rang, but my sister answered the phone first.

Elsa and Anna are sisters, but they disagreed over what to do when the spirits of the forest awakened.