Types of Sentences
November 30, 2009 | Posted in: Class Updates
Confused about simple, complex, and compound sentences? This website will help.
Here are the descriptions that your child aught to have brought home today.
Subject Who or what the sentence is about. (Ex: The blue ball rolled down the driveway.)
Predicate What happens to the subject. (Ex: The blue ball rolled down the driveway.)
Simple Subject Just the noun that makes up the subject. (Ex: The blue ball rolled down the driveway.)
Complete Subject All the words that show who or what the sentence is about. (Ex: The blue ball rolled down the driveway.)
Compound Subject A subject that has two or more people or things. (Ex: The blue ball and red baseball bat rolled down the driveway.)
Simple Predicate The verb that shows what the subject does. (Ex: The blue ball rolled down the driveway.)
Complete Predicate All the words that show what the subject did. (Ex: The blue ball rolled down the driveway.)
Compound Predicate The words that show multiple things that the subject did. (Ex: The blue ball rolled down the driveway and hit a passing car.)
Dependent Clause Part of a sentence that cannot be a sentence on its own. (Ex: I came to school late because of the late bus. “Because of the late bus” cannot be a complete sentence.)
Independent Clause Part of a sentence that can be a sentence on its own. (Ex: I came to school late because of the late bus. “I came to school late.” can be a complete sentence.)
Simple Sentence A sentence that has only an independent clause. (Ex: The blue ball rolled down the driveway.)
Complex Sentence A sentence with an independent clause AND one or more dependent clauses. (Ex: After Mary kicked it, the blue ball rolled down the driveway because of the blacktop’s slope.)
Compound Sentence A sentence that is actually made of two sentences that are joined together with the words and, but, so, or other words. (Mary kicked the blue ball, so it rolled into the street.)
Want the answers to tonight’s homework so you can help your kids? Click the link (right below this line) to read more!
Answer Key:
Across
1. compoundpredicate
7. completepredicate
8. independentclause
10. simplesubject
11. predicate
12. complexsentence
Down
1. compoundsentence
2. compoundsubject
3. subject
4. completesubject
5. dependentclause
6. simplesentence
9. simplepredicate
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