A compound sentence is a complete unit of meaning which contains a subject and a verb.:
A compound-complex sentence consists of two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses:
An independent or main clause has a subject and a verb and gives meaning by itself:
Coordination is one of the methods for combining two or more complete sentences but it also shows the proper relationship between similar or related ideas:
Correlatives are conjunctions with two parts:
In a complex sentence there is one "main" idea and one or more "subordinate" ideas:
Inversion can be used with certain expressions with a negative or restrictive meaning which are met at the beginning of a sentence for emphasis:
The basic word order of a sentence if it is not a question or a command is: subject - verb - object - adverbials:
The meaning of an English sentence depends on the word order:
The word "clause" refers to a group of words that has a subject and a verb. There are two kinds of clauses in English: independent and dependent:
There are two kinds of clauses in English: dependent and independent:
We can join two or more simple sentences to make complex sentences:
We do not usually put a comma in front of and, but we often use one in front of other conjunctions:
We don't usually repeat the subject after so:
We keep to the basic word order in a compound sentence: subject verb object conjunction subject verb complement: