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Complex Sentence Help

9/16/2010

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Complex Sentence Helpers

These helper words are always the first words in your DEPENDENT CLAUSE for complex sentences.

***Remember: if you begin your sentence with one of these words, you will NEED A COMMA, but if the word is IN the sentence then NO COMMA.

Example:

1. When high school students choose to experiment with drugs or alcohol, everyone loses. COMMA

2. Everyone loses when high school students choose to experiment with drugs or alcohol. NO COMMA

Complex Sentence Helpers

after                                  how                             unless                          before             because

although                            if                                  until                             while               since   

as                                    in case                         when                           though             whether

as if                                   now that                      whenever                    even though

as though                          once                            where                          as soon as
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Point of View

9/9/2010

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First Person: The narrator, person telling the story, is actually a character in the story. Clue words are I, me, and we.


Second Person: The narrator is giving directions, using the word you. This tends to be in instruction manuals.


Third Person Limited: The narrator, person telling the story, tells you what one character in the story is thinking and feeling but can not tell what the other characters think or feel. Clue words are he, she, and they.


Third Person Omniscient: The narrator, person telling the story, tells what everyone in the story is thinking or feeling.
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Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences

9/8/2010

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Subject: Who or what the sentence is about
Predicate: The action that the subject is doing

Simple Sentence: An independent clause (a complete thought) ex. The boy yawned.
Can be added onto with modifiers (descriptive words) ex. The tall boy in the back of my science class yawned loudly.
You may also have a compound subject. ex. The tall boy and his friend yawned.
You may also have a compound predicate. ex. The tall boy yawned and stretched his arms in science class.

Compound Sentence: A sentence combining two or more independent clauses (complete thoughts) that are joined by a coordinating conjunction and a comma or by a semicolon (;)
Coordinating conjunction and comma ex. My brother forgot his homework, and he had to call home.
Semicolon ex. My brother forgot his homework; he had to call home.

Complex Sentence: One independent clause and one or more dependent clauses (incomplete thought). If the the dependent clause comes first then it must be followed by comma.
Dependent clause first ex. Since we got to the concert late, we had to make our way to our seats in the dark.
Independent clause first ex. We had to make our way to our seats in the dark since we got to the concert late.

Remember a single word can change a clause from an independent clause to a dependent clause.
Dependent clause: Since we got to the concert late
Independent clause: We got to the concert late.
Adding the word since changes the word from an independent clause to a dependent clause.
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Mrs. Peace
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