Simple, Compound, Complex Sentences | Learning English

Learn how to identify simple, compound and complex sentences and use them in your own writing. Good writers use a variety of sentence structures to make their writing more engaging.

Compound Sentence - English Grammar Lesson

In this lesson, we introduce ourselves to the compound sentence and its parts, and learn how to construct good, grammatical compound sentences of various lengths.

The Compound Sentence

In this lesson, we introduce ourselves to the compound sentence and its parts, and learn how to construct good, grammatical compound sentences of various lengths.





Here are some more examples to remember the material.

ADVERBIAL MODIFIERS

Task 1. Watch the video. Study the material on theThe Adverbial Modifier  § 34 - 35 pages 258 - 261. Put down short review of the material in your exercise books.

Attributive and Predicative Adjectives

An attribute is a quality or characteristic given to a person, group, or some other thing.

This noun which is the most important word in a sentence is often qualified by an adjective or the equivalent of an adjective which is called its attribute or enlargement.

The attribute is a secondary part of the sentence which qualifies a noun, a pronoun, or any other part of speech that has a nominal character.

An attribute can be either in pre-position or in post-position to the word it modifies.

What did she do with herself... in that little hole? (Galsworthy)

Under a tree opposite Knightsbridge Barracks... he took out once more the

morocco, case. (Galsworthy)

As a result of the loss of inflexions, the attribute in English, as distinct from Russian, does not agree with the word it modifies in number, case, or gender.

It may be expressed by almost any part of speech.

Opinion Letters and Articles

Opinion writing is an elementary type of argument in which students give reasons for their opinions and preferences. 

Opinion articles and letters are written when we want to express our personal opinion on a particular topic. 

They can be articles for publication, compositions for a class assignment, letters to be the press/authorities, or letters to a friend. 

They should include relevant information to support our opinion, and use an appropriate style depending on who is going to read the peace of writing.

To know what is the Opinion letter and how  to arrange it go through these links below.

Left questions ask in the comments. 

1. Writing a Draft: Introduction

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmEWpwB85E0

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEK2oGBSsHk

2. Lesson video for 'Brainstorm topics for writing opinion letters'

https://learnzillion.com/videos/49498?embed_code=1

3. Opinion Writing Strategies for Second Grade Students 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrJNL7X54XM

4. Writing letters do not forget to use appropriate style

Opinion Writing for Kids | Episode 4 | Writing a Draft: Introduction

The Object

The Object.

Here you will find some helpful material for the theme. Go through the links given below.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1kfd480i3E

2. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar/syntax-sentences-and-clauses/subjects-and-predicates/v/subject-direct-object-and-indirect-object-syntax-khan-academy

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEI9uG2wPqQ

Agreement of the Predicate with the subject

Task is to watch this short video clip to have a better understanding of what the agreement of the Predicate with the subject. Go through the link below

https://youtu.be/LfJPA8GwTdk

Does the word Government take a singular or plural verb?

Does the word Government take a singular or plural verb?



Nouns such as government, committee, group, clan and family are used to refer both to a whole group as a singular entity and to the members of the group. So these words can take either a singular or plural verbs depending on the contexts.

• The Tamil Nadu government has announced pay hike for its employees.

• Has the government expressed its protest on the killing of innocent civilians in Sri Lanka?

In the following examples the noun government takes the plural verb as it refers to the members of the cabinet.

• The government are not in favour of implementing the sixth pay commission recommendations.

• The government do not have the right to ask the employees of a private company to withdraw their strike.

Similarly, if the noun group is considered as a whole, it can be treated as a single entity.

• The group wants to take the test next Monday.

But when the individuality of its members is emphasized, group is plural.

• The group are not going to support your proposal.

In the above example, the group refers to individual members.

The Predicate Quizz

The Predicate Quizz. 

There are three basic types of a predicate: the simple predicate, the compound predicate.

Go through this link to fulfill the online test on the Predicate.

1. https://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/predicate/quiz245.html
2. http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/multi/subpred.htm

Discourse management

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/discourse-management

The Compound Sentence