- What are complex sentences? Give a GOOD explanation and give an example (talk about independent and dependent clauses)
- What are run-on sentences? How can we fix them? Give an example
Today in ESL class, I learned about complete sentence, complex sentence, and run-on sentence.
Compound sentence is two complete, simple sentences put together in one sentence.
For examples,
+ My sister like my cats, but my mom doesn't like my cats.
In this sentence, my sister and my mom are subject. like my cat and doesn't like my cats are predicate.
+ His best friend, Jone, was at in hospital, so Jam went to school alone.
In this sentence, His best friend, Jone and Jam are subject. Was at in hospital and went to school alone are predicate.
Complex sentence is a sentence that has an independent clause and a dependent clause joined together.
An independent clause is the part of a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence. And a dependent clause is the part of a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence. It depends on the independent clause to make sense.
