Grammar : Simple and Compound Sentences

Grammar : Simple and Compound Sentences

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Read the sentences

• Ali is a boy.

• Ali and Abu love playing football.

• Ali loves playing video games.

Simple Sentence

• has only one independent clause

• independent clause has a subject and a verb (v)

Multiple Choice

Identify the simple sentence :

• Ali and Abu are friends so they like to go anywhere together.

• Jane is a big fan of burgers, so she always buys burgers for lunch.

• Nor Ali and Abu know how to fix the computer.

• My son lives in London.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence composes of compound verb?

• Tom read novels and newspapers.

• Tom reads and enjoys novels.

• Tom and Harry read novels.

Multiple Choice

Which sentence composes of compound subject?

• A pair of blue trousers look great.

• You have to work hard to become successful.

• Harriet and Nancy play basketball every afternoon.

Compound Sentence

• has only two or more independent clauses joined together by a comma and a coordinating conjunction

Examples of compound sentences using coordinating conjunctions.

Multiple Select

Identify the compound sentences:

• Marie doesn't like cartoons because they are loud, so she doesn't watch them.

• I want to lose weight, yet I eat chocolate daily.

• I can't sing as well as Aziz did.

• If he gets there before me, ask him to wait.

Multiple Select

Identify the compound sentences:

• We play tennis every morning.

• The Rhine flows between France and Germany.

• I couldn't go to school nor could he.

• Our parents were friends, so we sometimes played together.

Multiple Select

Identify the compound sentences:

• Dr. Mark said I could come to his office on Friday or Saturday of next week.

• The students wear their uniform.

• The bell rang and the music began.

• The train leaves in ten minutes.

Multiple Choice

Join two simple sentences to form a compound sentence:

The boys were hungry. They went to the restaurant to have their lunch.

• The boys were hungry before they went to the restaurant to have their lunch.

• The boys were hungry because they went to the restaurant to have their lunch.

• The boys were hungry so they went to the restaurant to have their lunch.

• The boys were hungry yet they went to the restaurant to have their lunch.