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Simple, Complex and

Compound sentences

LO – Use simple, complex and

compound sentences in my writing and

evaluate why and how they are

effective.

This is confusing stuff so you

have to…..

LISTEN!!!!

Simple Sentences are…

SIMPLE! You all use simple sentences in your writing. For example ‘The sand was golden.’ Or ‘The sun was hot.’ If you only use simple sentences your reader will fall asleep.* *and you won’t get higher than a C!

Compound Sentences are…

A little less simple.

When you have two or more short, independent, simple sentences

which are of equal weight you can join them together using

CONJUNCTIONS.

For example:

The sea was rough.

The sun was shining.

These are both boring simple sentences. You can put these

together to make one longer, more interesting compound

sentence using a conjunction.

For example: The sea was rough but the sun was shining.

The most common conjunctions are: and, as, but, or, so

Remember: JUNCTIONS join roads together, so

CONJUNCTIONS join sentences together!

Complex sentences are… The hardest of all! So listen carefully… The Small Print… When you make a compound sentence you are joining two or more simple sentences together with a conjunction. If you took the conjunction away, the sentences would be complete and they would still make sense. This isn't the same for complex sentences. Complex sentences don't just divide into neat, complete, simple sentences if you take out the conjunctions. In complex sentences the conjunction is used to join together clauses. A clause is a group of words that contains a subject and a verb. Some of these clauses might be complete short sentences, but in a complex sentence at least one of them will depend on the conjunction for its meaning.

In other words, if you take the conjunction away, the

sentence won't divide into complete units that make

sense by themselves!

Thailand flourishes in March, although it rains in August. Thailand flourishes in March – Main clause (complete, short sentence) Although – Conjunction It rains in August – Subordinate clause (Called this because it doesn’t really make sense on its own!) While the breeze blew, people flew colourful kites. While – Conjunction (Yes, they can be at the beginning of sentences too!) The breeze blew – Subordinate clause People flew colourful kites – Main clause (complete, short sentence) Notice that only 1 of the 2 clauses in these sentences makes sense on its own!

THE POINT of all this….

• You MUST vary your sentences when writing descriptively.
• It makes your writing more INTERESTING, ENGAGING and more importantly will get you a HIGHER GRADE!