Thursday, November 14, 2013

Complex sentences

What is a complex sentence

  • a complex sentence has two parts the first part is the dependent  
  • the next one is the independent 


What is an independent clause 
  • An Independent clause  can stand on its on. 
  • the first word of the sentence can tell you that it is the Independent clause 

What is the dependent clause 
  • the dependent clause is a sentences that can't stand alone 
  • some of them are because, after, when, and if.
Because the cat ran away, Morgan went to find him
After Kim ate, she went to bed
If you go to the movies, you have to pay for it.

Morgan went to find her cat pepper.
Kim went to bed after she ate.
Morgan went to the movies with her friends. 
  

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