2.8.1 Simple Sentence
A sentence with only one independent clause also known as a main clause.
1. ―Children are all foreigners.‖ Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. ―Mother died today.‖ Albert Camus, The Stranger, 1842
3. ―Of course, no man is enterely in his right mind at any time.‖ Mark
Twain, The Misterious Stranger
2.8.2 Compound Sentence
A sentence that contains at least two independent clauses. Compound sentence can be formed in three ways:
1. Using coordinating conjunctions and, but, for, nor, or, so, yet;
2. Using the semicolon, either with or without conjunctive adverbs;
3. On occasion, using the colon.
Example: 1.
―It was bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.‖ George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1994
2. ―The drought had lasted now for ten milion years, and the reign of the
terrible lizards had long since ended.‖ Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
2.8.3 Complex Sentence
A sentence that contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause. The complex sentence is one of the four basic sentence
structures. The other structures are simple sentence, the compound sentence, and the compound-complex sentence.
Example: 1.
―He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.‖ George Eliot, Adam Bede
2. ―If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because
he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.‖ Henry David Thoreau
2.8.4 Compound-Complex Sentence
A sentence with two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. The sompound-complex sentence is one of the four basic
sentence structures. The other structures are the simple sentence, the compound sentence, and the complex sentence.
Example: 1.
―In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social
inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all
men are equal applies only upwards, not d ownwards.‖ Bertrand
Russell 2.
―Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.‖ James Baldwin
2.9 Clause
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