Compound Sentences

Rules to live by…

Review
 What does every simple sentence contain?
 A subject and verb that makes sense.
 What do we call a group of words that has
a subject, verb and makes sense?
 An independent clause
 How many independent clauses does a si
mple sentence have?
 One
What is a compound sentence
 A compound sentences is a sentence mad
e up of two complete thoughts.
 Each part of the sentence can stand alone
as a complete sentence.
 Compound sentences are connected by tw
o types of connectors, which we will talk ab
out later.
 Compound Sentences
Example of compound sentences:
 The students finished class, and they went to lun
ch.

 Kevin did not want to hurt Kathy’s feelings, so he

said nothing about her mistake.

 I want to see my sister soon, for she has been in

Switzerland for two years.
What is the difference between
compound sentences and SS VV
simple sentences?
Things that are the same.

Simple Sentences Compound Sentences

 Can have 2 subjects.  Can have 2 subjects

 Can have 2 verbs  Can have 2 verbs
What makes them different? The F
ormulas
Simple Sentences Compound Sentences

 2 subjects doing 2 thins at the sa  1 subject is doing on action and 1

me time: subject is doing a different action:
 SS VV  SV SV

Because of this difference a simple sentences with two

subjects and two verbs can not stand alone.
Compare
S S V
 The men and women met at the station and w
V
ent to dinner.
 Simple Sentence

S V S
 The men met at the station, and the women w
V
ent to dinner.
 Compound Sentence
Compare
S S V V
 The ducks and geese squawked and fluttered th
eir wings.
 Simple Sentence

S V S V
 The ducks squawked, and the geese fluttered th
eir wings.
 Compound Sentence
Compare
S S V V
 Harry and Joe ate ice cream and drank pop.
 Simple Sentence
S V S V
 Harry ate ice cream, and Joe drank pop.
 Compound Sentence
How to combine two in
dependent clauses

We have two ways

First way…

 A Coordinating Conjunction
 A word that is used with a comma to join t
wo independent clauses
Coordinating Conjunctions

 , for  , but
 , and  , or

 , nor  , yet
 , so
Examples

 Baseball is my favorite sport to watch, but football is

my favorite sport to play.

 The children ran all the way to school, yet they were l
ate anyway.

 You will have to finish the project, or your group will g

et a failing grade
Second way
 Semicolons

 Semicolons { ; } can also be used to join the tw

o independent clauses of a compound sentenc
e.
Examples
 Susan loves to swim; her brother likes to di
ve.
 Jason was highly respected; he was alway
s such a nice person.
 The meeting was over; it was already midn
ight.