Compound sentence

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5th - 10th Grade

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Compound sentence

A compound sentence joins two or more sentences that have related ideas of equal importance. The two sentences go together. Each sentence or independent clause must still have a subject and a verb

Review of Compound Sentence.

What is an Independent Clause?

Instruction:

Choose and write the Independent sentence.

Example:

She wants to travel the world and see wonderful sights.

She wants to travel the world (Independent sentence)

Open Ended

The weather today will be rainy, so we will not go outside for recess.

Type response here

Open Ended

I enjoy sitting by the fireplace and reading.

Type response here

Open Ended

The beach is a lot of fun, yet the mountains are better.

Type response here

Open Ended

She had just bought two gorgeous dresses, so she needed to get matching shoes.

Type response here

Now that we know what is a Independent clause.

What is a Compound sentence?

What we learn in the video?

1.-We use 2 Independent Clauses.

2.-We can use the Fanboy (For,And,Nor,But, Or, Yet and So)

3.-We use a comma before a Fanboy conjunction to join the sentences.

4.-We can use Punctuation marks to make compound sentences too.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence uses commas correctly?

Jim is very bold and smart but he doesn't always say nice things to people.

Jim is very bold and smart, but he doesn't always say nice things to people.

Jim, is very bold and smart but he doesn't always say nice things to people.

Jim is very bold, and smart, but he doesn't always say nice things to people.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is the correct compound sentence?

Mary swam in the pool, but she didn't have any of her friends with her to swim with.

Jennifer ate her lunch and, went to the ice cream store.

Brooke had her party but, none of her friends could sleepover.

Sarah and Julie had a picnic and then rode bikes

Multiple Choice

Is this sentence correct or incorrect?
My sister ate my sandwich, so I kicked her.

Correct

Incorrect

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence with the coordinating conjunction that make sense.

Eric got an A on the spelling test, _____ he had studied hard.

yet

for

but

Multiple Choice

Complete the sentence with the coordinating conjunction that make sense.

You may have soup, ____ you may have salad.

and

nor

yet

Multiple Choice

Where should the comma go in the following compound sentence?
He signed a tennis ball for her yet he didn't ask her to dinner.

before for

after for

before yet

after yet

Multiple Choice

When I join two independent clauses together with a comma, I also need a _________________________.

subordinating conjunction

coordinating conjunction

correlative conjunction

Multiple Choice

What sentence structure is created when you join two independent clauses with a comma and coordinating conjunction?

complex sentence

compound sentence

simple sentence

Multiple Choice

In a compound sentence, the comma comes ______________ the coordinating conjunction.

after

before

there is no comma

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