Guided Notes for Sentence Skills: Identify

simple, compound, complex, and

compound-complex sentences

Sentence Structures
What are combined to create sentences?

Simple Sentences
What is a simple sentence? What does it contain?

Can a simple sentence have a compound subject and compound predicate?

Compound Sentences
What is a compound sentence?

What are the common coordinating conjunctions used create compound sentences?

1. ______________________________
2. ______________________________
3. ______________________________
4. ______________________________
5. ______________________________
6. ______________________________
7. ______________________________
What punctuation is used to combine two simple sentences to create a compound sentence?

What joins clauses?

1. ___________________
2. ___________________

A compound sentence contains

____________________________________________________________________________.

Complex Sentences
What does a complex sentence consist of?

What does complex mean when referring to sentence structure?

Compound of Complex?

Write an example of a compound sentence.

1. ______________________________________________________________________

What makes it a compound sentence?

Write an example of a complex sentence.

1. ______________________________________________________________________

What makes it a complex sentence?

How can you tell the difference between the two?

Compound-Complex Sentences
What makes a sentence both a compound and a complex sentence?

Write some examples.