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 What is a sentence?
A sentence is a set of words that is complete in itself, typically
containing a subject and predicate, conveying a statement, question,
exclamation, or command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes
one or more subordinate clauses.

EXAMPLE:
I love English.
 What is a Sentence Structure?
A sentence’s “structure” is the way its words are arranged.

In English, we have four main sentence structures: the simple

sentence, the compound sentence, the complex sentence, and the
compound-complex sentence. Each uses a specific combination of
independent and dependent clauses to help make sure that our sentences
are strong, informational, and most importantly, that they make sense!
 SIMPLE SENTENCE
A simple sentence has only one subject and one predicate—one
independent clause. In fact, an independent clause itself is a simple
sentence.

Here are some examples:

She jumped.
The cheetah ran.
He ran to the gas station.
He ate dinner.
 SUBJECT AND PREDICATE
Understanding Subject and The dog is the subject of the
Predicate is the key to good sentence sentence, because the sentence is
writing. The subject of a complete telling something about that dog.
sentence is who or what the sentence And what is it telling? It says that the
is about, and the predicate tells about dog ran. So in this example the
that subject. subject is “dog” and the predicate is
EXAMPLE: “ran.”
The dog ran.
 SIMPLE SUBJECT AND SIMPLE
PREDICATE
Every sentence has two main parts: a simple subject and a simple
predicate.

The simple subject of a sentence is the main word in the complete subject.
It is always a noun or a pronoun. Sometimes, the simple subject is also the
complete subject.
 EXAMPLES:
Most birds | can fly.
They | can fly because they have wings.

The simple predicate is the complete verb within the complete predicate. The
simple predicate may be one or more words.

Most birds | can fly.

They | can fly because they have wings.
 COMPOUND SUBJECT AND
SIMPLE PREDICATE
A sentence which has two subject and one predicate.

EXAMPLES:

Jack and Jill went up a hill.

Arnold and Juan play cricket every evening.
Julia and Mary hired a taxi to airport
 SIMPLE SUBJECT AND
COMPOUND PREDICATE
A compound predicate has two actions for the same subject. In other words, the subject of
the sentence is doing more than one action. The easiest way to identify a compound
predicate is to look for a compound verb, which occurs when two or more verb shares the
same subject. The easiest way to do so is to look for two verbs connected with a
conjunction.

EXAMPLES:
The dog barked and ran.
Mary laughed and cried through out the movie.
Bob ate and drank.
 COMPOUND SUBJECT AND
COMPOUND PREDICATE
The sentence has two subjects and also has two predicates.

EXAMPLES:
1. The cat and the dog yowled and howled, respectively.
2. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both served as president and
died on the same day.
3. My brother and I skipped and hopped on the puddle.
Directions: Draw a line between the complete subject and the complete
predicate in the following sentences. Then underline the simple subject and
draw a box around the simple predicate.

Example: David’s entire family | ate dinner at a Mexican restaurant last night.

1) Daniel can come with us to the movie.

2) Li is my best friend.
3) The moon is shining bright.
4) Cassia is writing a letter.
5) Dinner will be ready in fifteen minutes.
 4 TYPES OF SENTENCE
STRUCTURES
SIMPLE SENTENCE

A simple sentence has only one subject and one predicate—one independent
clause.  In fact, an independent clause itself is a simple sentence. Here are some
examples:

She jumped.
The cheetah ran.
He ran to the gas station.
He ate dinner.

 
Sentences don’t have many details and they don’t really combine multiple
ideas—they are simple!
What is FANBOYS?
 COMPOUND SENTENCE

A compound sentence has at least two independent clauses. It uses a conjunction

like “and” to connect the ideas. Here are some examples:

1. The dog ate pizza but the cat drank apple juice.  
2. The dog ate pizza but the cat drank apple juice and the fish had eggs.

As you can see, a compound sentence allows us to share a lot of information by

combining two or more complete thoughts into one sentence.
 COMPLEX SENTENCE

A complex sentence has one independent clause and one or more dependent
clauses. It sometimes uses conjunctions and other words to combine all of the
clauses together.

1. When he was on the airplane, the man bought cookies.

2. When he was on the airplane, the man bought cookies, but not brownies.

A great way to make a sentence more detailed is by adding dependent clauses

(which couldn’t be sentences on their own). So, complex sentences let us add
information to simple sentences.
 COMPUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE

A compound-complex sentence has two or more independent clauses and at

least one dependent clause—so, it uses conjunction(s) to combine two complete
sentences and at least one incomplete sentence. Here is an example:

1. The girl smelled cookies, which were baking at home, so, she ran all the
way there.

The result of combining the three clauses and the conjunction is a compound-
complex sentence that is both informational and easy to understand. The
independent clauses give the main information, and the dependent clause(s) give
the details.
4 TYPES OF SENTENCES
NOW LET US HAVE A QUIZ!
 Write s for simple sentence
write CP for compound
CX for complex,CP/CX for compound complex

• 1. The children waited while the parents went home already.

• 2. Mother cooks my favorite meal and father plays with me the
whole time.
• 3. I love ice cream but I have tooth ache.
• 4. My teacher is my best friend and my counselor.
• 5. BSED students prepared for the lesson for they wanted to pass
the subject.
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• 6. Little children are blessings from God so they should be
treated fairly.
• 7. Unless you are ready, you cannot pass the subject for
you need to focus on it.
• 8. Listening and talking should not be done
simultaneously.
• 9.I want to go to Japan but I do not have the passport.
• 10. BEED students are attentive because they want to pass
with flying colors.