1. Types of sentences
Consider all you know about sentences and how they are constructed.
Then, by yourself or with one other person, make a list of all of the TYPES of sentences you can think of. (Hint: There are a FINITE number of sentence types.) Do this on scratch paper.
Done? Get your writing folder out of the drawer.

2. In your writing folder, create the heading: Language #1: Sentence Structures, November 7
Then, in your writing folder, take notes on the following slides.

3. The furry, black dog ran down the path.
1.) Simple sentence
A simple sentence contains 1 independent clause (a group of words with a subject and a predicate that expresses a complete idea).
The furry, black dog ran down the path.

4. 2.) compound sentence
A compound sentence contains at least 2 independent clauses correctly joined together by a semi colon OR by a comma and a coordinating conjunction.
The furry, black dog ran down the path, and the brown dog waited for him.
Coordinating Conjunctions can be remembered using the acronym FANBOYS:
for, and, nor, but, or, yet and so.

5. What do you notice about how to use a comma?
3.) complex sentence
A complex sentence contains an independent clause AND a dependent clause. A dependent clause is a group of words with a subject and a predicate that DOES NOT express a complete thought.
The furry, black dog ran down the path while the brown dog waited for him.
What do you notice about how to use a comma?
While the brown dog waited for him, the furry, black dog ran down the path.

6. Subordinate Conjunctions
Dependent clauses
A subordinate clause—also called a dependent clause—will begin with a subordinate conjunction or a relative pronoun and will contain both a subject and a verb. This combination of words will not form a complete sentence. It will instead make a reader want additional information to finish the thought.
Subordinate Conjunctions
after although as because before even if even though if in order that
once provided that rather than since so that than that though unless
until when whenever where whereas wherever whether while why
Relative Pronouns
that which whichever
who whoever whom
whose whosever whomever

7. 4.) compound-complex sentence
A compound-complex sentence is a compound sentence in which at least one of the two sentences being joined is complex.
In other words, it contains at least 2 independent clauses and 1 dependent clause.
The furry, black dog ran down the path while the brown dog waited for him, but his owners kept on walking.

8. Compound subject
In any clause, the subject can be simple (there is just one1) or compound (there are more than one).
Do not be confused. Plurals do not equal compound. The dogs is still one simple subject.
The black dog and his buddy run down the path away from his owners.

9. Compound predicate
In any clause, a predicate can be compound. A compound predicate occurs when the subject in the sentence is doing more than one action and is shared by two or more verbs. These verbs are joined by a conjunction, or a connecting word, such as 'and,' 'or,' and 'but.'
The dogs ran down the path and escaped their owners.

10. What kind of sentence is this?
True story:
These two dogs are brothers and littermates that reconnected when they coincidentally met up at the dog park.
What kind of sentence is this?