What is a compound sentence? To understand a compound sentence, it helps to go back and understand a simple sentence—the first of four types of sentences that form the foundations of writing. A clause ...

A complex sentence communicates more than one idea. One part (the main clause) is like a simple sentence: it can stand on its own. The other part (the minor clause) gives more detail about the simple ...

In this episode we will learn about sentence types: simple, complex, compound and compound-complex; and how to use them in your writing. Examiners will look at the range of sentence types you use in ...

TYPES OF SENTENCE STRUCTURE – You can check the guide below on the types of structure and some examples under each. There are countless topics in English. Many of these are subtopics under a main ...

More than four years ago, a Miami, Florida-based Forum member posted a question about an English-grammar book’s classification of sentences into five types, namely simple, compound, complex, ...

Last week, we started discussing the differences between a phrase, clause and a sentence. We defined a phrase as a group of words without a subject and a predicate, though standing together to form a ...

When you’re looking to master your grammar, it helps to learn the parts of a sentence. One of the foundations of writing is a clause, and these can be divided into independent and dependent clauses.