Sentence Structures

Question 1

What are the basic sentence structure?

Answer 1

• Simple sentence
• Compound sentence
• Complex sentence
• Compound-Complex sentence

Question 2

What are the basic elements of every sentence?

Answer 2

Subject and predicate

Question 3

What is simple sentence?

Answer 3

it has both one sentence and predicate
Example:
We walked from our house to church.

Question 4

Simple Sentence with compound subject

this is like a review, this might come out in the test

Answer 4

Example:
in the module* Tom and Mary plays tennis
1. A group of my classmates studied the problem and solved it within a minute.
2. My grandpa and grandma gave us sweets everytime they come to our house

Question 5

What is a Compound Sentence?

Answer 5

made up of two INDEPENDENT CLAUSES. independent clauses are connected with ;
=coordinating conjunctions
=conjunctive adverbs
=semi-colon

Question 6

What are the conjunctive adverbs

Answer 6

MOREOVER
HOWEVER
OTHERWISE
THEREFORE

Question 7

When to use semicolons?

Answer 7

if the relation between the ideas expressed in the main clauses is very close and obvious without using conjunctions

Question 8

What is Complex sentence?

Answer 8

A complex sentence has 1 dependent and indepent clause.

-the dependent clause is linked to the rest of the sentence by the subornating conjunctions

Question 9

What are the subornating conjunctions?

Answer 9

after, although,as, because, before, how, if, once, since, than, that, though, till, until, when, where, whether, and while

Question 10

What is compound-complex sentence?

Answer 10

it has more than independent and 1 dependent clause

-The conjunctions connect the various parts of this phrase.