NURSULTAN

COMPLEX SENTENCE MUKAMBETOV

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 WHAT IS A COMPLEX SENTENCE?

The complex sentence is a polypredicative construction built up

on the principle of subordination.
IN THE EXAMPLES BELOW, INDEPENDENT CLAUSES
ARE ORANGE AND DEPENDENT CLAUSES ARE BLUE.

When the dog went to the county fair, he ate

popcorn.

If the dog goes to the county fair, he will eat

popcorn.

The dog went to the county fair after he smelled

popcorn.

The dog went to the county fair when he smelled the

popcorn.
Because my coffee was too cold, I heated it in the
microwave.
INDEPENDENT AND DEPENDENT
CLAUSES
The dog ate popcorn.

The cheetah ran quickly.

He went to the county fair.

 After he went to the fair.
Though he ate popcorn.
While he was at the county
fair.
 DEPENDENT “MARKER”
WORDS/SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

after, although, as, because, before, even if, even

though, if, since, though, unless, until, whatever,
when, whenever, whether,  and while.
 A DEPENDENT MARKER WORD GOES AT THE
BEGINNING OF AN INDEPENDENT CLAUSE .

He was at the county fair = Independent clause

When

When he was at the county fair = Dependent clause

 HERE ARE SOME COMPLEX SENTENCES
WITH THE MARKER WORDS UNDERLINED:
 When he was at the county fair, the dog ate popcorn.

 Though he likes cotton candy, the dog loves popcorn.

 The dog gets a stomachache if he eats popcorn.
 The dog went to the county fair  when he smelled the popcorn.
 HOW TO WRITE A COMPLEX SENTENCE

All complex sentences have an independent clause and a dependent

clause.

Complex sentences can have more than one dependent clause.

To connect independent and dependent clauses, you need dependent

marker words and/or subordinating conjunctions.

Dependent marker words come at the beginning of a complex

sentence.

When a dependent marker word comes at the beginning of a

sentence, you need a comma at the end of the dependent clause.

When a dependent marker word comes in the middle of the sentence,

you do not need a comma.
 Complex sentences are friends and neighbors
to compound sentences. There's only one difference.
Compound sentences contain two independent clauses
- that's all there is to it..
 SUBJECT, PREDICATIVE, OBJECT

Clauses of primary nominal positions — subject, predicative,

object — are interchangeable with one another in easy
reshufflings of sentence constituents.

What you saw at the exhibition is just what I want to know. →

What I want to know is just what you saw at the exhibition. → I
just want to know what you saw at the exhibition.
 COMPLEX SENTENCES WHICH HAVE
TWO OR MORE SUBORDINATE
CLAUSES DISCRIMINATE TWO BASIC
TYPES OF SUBORDINATION
ARRANGEMENT: PARALLEL AND
CONSECUTIVE.
WHEN HE AGREES TO HEAR ME, AND WHEN WE HAVE
SPOKEN THE MATTER OVER, I'LL TELL YOU THE
RESULT.
I'VE NO IDEA WHY SHE SAID SHE COULDN'T
CALL ON US AT THE TIME I HAD SUGGESTED
 REFERENCES

1) BLOKH M. THEORETICAL GRAMMAR OF

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. – M., 1983.
2
HTTPS://ENGLISHSENTENCES.COM/COMPLEX-S
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