SB 1.5 Analyzing and Creating Complex Sentences

- Create complex sentences by combining phrases and clauses to show the relationships between ideas.

- Understand the ways in which language choices can be made to achieve intended effects.

Clauses have a subject and predicate.

Independent clause:

- Expresses a complete thought
- Can stand alone as a complete sentence

Dependent clause (subordinate clause):

- Group of words that has a subject and a predicate but does not express a complete thought

- Cannot stand on its own as a sentence

- Needs to be combined with an independent clause to make a sentence

Phrases are two or more words that work together but do not have a subject-verb pair.