Sentence and its types

• Group of words

• Subject and predicate

• Complete idea

What is a sentence?

• A word!

What is a sentence?

• Statement

• Questions

• Exclaiming

More examples!

• Begins with capital letter and ends with "." "?" or "!"

• Complete idea

• Subject (hidden or visible) + verb

Characteristics

Structurally, sentences are of four types.

I always wanted to become a writer.

Simple Sentence

I always wanted to become a writer, and she wanted to become a doctor.

Compound Sentence

​I know that you always wanted to be a writer.

Complex sentence

​I know that you always wanted to become a writer, but I always wanted to become a doctor.

Compound - Complex

• Single clause (single verb)

• independent

• cannot take another clause

Simple Sentence

• 1+ independent clause

• no dependent clauses

• conjunctions, punctuation, or both are used to join

Compound Sentence

• 1 independent clause

• with dependent clauses

• connectors

Complex sentence

• 2 independent clauses

• At least 1 dependent clause

• connectors/conjunctions

• punctuations

Compound - Complex