EF56 compound complex, sentence types

 

English Foundations 5/6

Good morning, everyone.

We will get started at 8:30

 

 

Today’s agenda

·      Check your marks with my records if you wish. Bring in your quiizzes and tests to verify your marks.

·      Sentence- compound complex

·      Replacement quiz at the end of class for the people who signed up for it. (final 30m of class)

·      Let me know by tomorrow at 3 if you want to do the replacement test on Wednesday. Same deal as the replacemnt quiz.

Tell me which Test 1,2,3,4 you would like to replace.

 

 

Tuesday

·      Talk about “The Wise Woman of Cordoba”

·      Letter writing, business letter

·      Sentence combining

 

 

Wednesday

·      Sentence combining

·      Optional replacement test on “Wise Woman of Corboba”

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Thursday

·      Begin review

·      Final test- paragraph on a general topic, not a short story

 

 

 

Friday

·      Review

·      Marks day

·      I can give your final mark.

 

 

 

Sentence types

-SIMPLE

-COMPOUND

-COMPLEX

-COMPOUND COMPLEX

compound + adv cl, adj, n cl

COMPOUND - , SOBA   ;   ; however,

 

Joy is going to UBC, and she is very excited. COMPOUND

 

Joy is going to UBC, and she is very excited. + adj cl

Joy who is my friend is going to UBC, and she is very excited.

compound sentence adj cl

 

Joy is going to UBC, and she is very excited. + adv cl

Joy is going to UBC, and she is very excited.

compound sentence adv cl

Joy is going to UBC, and she is very excited although she is nervous.

Joy is going to UBC because she wants to study business, and she is very excited.

 

compound sentence + n cl

 I heard that Joy is going to UBC, and she is very excited.

Joy is going to UBC, and I think that she is very excited.

SIMPLE – one clause

COMPOUND – two clauses

COMPLEX – two clauses usually

COMPOUND COMPLEX- longest one, three clauses

 

It is a beautiful day today. It is chilly. SIMPLE

It is a beautiful day today, but it is chilly. COMPOUND

It is a beautiful day today since the sun is out. COMPLEX adv cl

It is chilly because it is early November. COMPLEX adv cl

I think that it is a beautiful day today. COMPLEX  noun cl

It is a beautiful day which reminds me of my childhood. COMPLEX adj cl

 

It is chilly because it is early November, but it is still really nice out. COMPOUND COMPLEX

It is chilly because it is early November, and the sky is a nice clear blue.

COMPOUND COMPLEX

 

COMPOUND COMPLEX is the next step up.

 

 

Stick to SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX, COMPOUND COMPLEX.

Anything longer than that gets messy and confused.

 

 

As you were leaving, your parents were arriving. COMPLEX – adv cl

As/ While you were talking, I was washing the dishes.

Junko was watching a movie as/while her sister was knitting a pair of mittens.

 

 

 

Time flies. We have four days left. Is there anything that we haven’t covered that you want to cover. Let me know.