Compound Sentences
Class / Description / Examples /Noun / A naming word that identifies people, places, things, ideas or qualities. / boy, Melbourne, laptop, excitement, consideration
Pronoun / A word that stands for a noun that has been used before. / it, that, he/she/they, those, them this
Adjective / A word that gives extra information about a noun. / wonderful, enormous,silent, impressive, deadly, frightening
Verb / A doing word. A word that indicates what something or someone does. / eat, make, think, talk, is, has, loves, fights
Adverb / A word that give extra information about a verb. / now, occasionally, soon, overhead, downstairs, underwater, slowly, carefully, loudly, quickly
Preposition / A word placed at the beginning of phrases indicating time, place and manner. / on, in, for, from, by, at, onto, above, after, to
Conjunction / A word that links two clauses, words or groups together. / and, but or, then, if, also, when, because
Clause
Clauses are made up of words and word groups. A clause is a basic message unit. They combine in different ways to form sentences.
A clause tells us that something is going on; for example, something happening, someone saying something or something relating to something else. Because of this, the central element in a clause is a verb group. If there isn’t a verb group then it won’t be a proper clause.
A clause also must contain one or more other word groups (noun groups or adverbial groups.)
Below are two examples of clauses whose word groups have been separated.
Martin / lived / in this caravan / with his grandmother.Noun group / Verb group / Adverbial group / Adverbial group
Suddenly / James / heard / a commotion
Adverbial group / Noun group / Verb group / Noun group
Compound Sentences
A compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses. Each clause is capable of standing on its own as a simple sentence and each provides equally important information. The clauses in a compound sentence are often linked by conjunctions.
Below are examples of compound sentences with the conjunctions underlined.
They ran for their mothers, screaming, but they could not get away.
|______| |______|
Clause One Clause Two
Was he a human, or was he still an immortal at heart?
|______| |______|
Clause One Clause Two
Common conjunctions used for linking two independent clauses
and / but / so / for / yetSometimes when two independent clauses that share the same subject are joined into a compound sentence, the subject (and sometimes the helping verb) is not repeated.
For example:
They were herded and [they were] piled into the back of a truck.
In this example both independent clauses share the same subject (they) when joined together with the conjunction ‘and’ the second clause does not need to repeat the subject because it is implied and clearly understood.
Task
1. Write five compound sentence using each of the conjunctions listed in the table above.
2. Swap your work with the person next to you.
3. Read the sentences on the page in front of you. Highlight the verb groups in each of the independent clauses. If the sentences are not compound sentences, correct them by turning them into compound sentences.
4. Return the work to its original owner.
5. Write 2 compound sentences that share the same subject and is able to be removed from the second clause.
6. Swap your work with the person next to you.
7. Read the sentences on the page in front of you. Underneath their sentence write the verb group in red that does not need to be repeated.
Write your five compound sentences here:
Write your two compound sentences that share the same subject here: