bought some bread after his mother asked him to go. OR
After his mother asked him to go,
Ollie ran to the store, and he bought some bread.
NOW WRITE YOUR OWN EXAMPLE OF A
COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE. Mega challenge: 1) Grab a whiteboard, Expo marker, eraser, and a few of your friends. 2) Sit next to each other in a small POD. 3) You need to pick a spokesperson for your group, but each person in the group needs to write the answer down on their own whiteboard.
1) What is a phrase?
2) What makes a complex sentence?
3) What makes a compound sentence?
4) Write an independent clause about
school that is correctly punctuated.
5) Write a dependent clause.
6) Write a correctly punctuated
complex sentence.
7) Write two different types of
compound sentences that are both correctly punctuated.
8) Which of the following complex
sentences is written correctly? A) After the party; I went to sleep. B) After the party, I went to sleep. C) After the party I went to sleep. D) After the party. I went to sleep.
9) Which of the following compound
sentences is punctuated correctly? A) I said I loved her; she laughed in my face. B) I said I loved her, but she laughed in my face. C) I said I loved her; She laughed in my face. D) I said I loved her but, she laughed in my face.
9) Write a correctly punctuated
compound-complex sentence?
10) Write a correctly punctuated
complex sentence that begins with an independent clause.
11) Can an independent clause begin
with an AAAWWUBBIS word?
12) Can two dependent clauses and a
comma ever be a complete sentence?
13) What three things do all sentences
have to have?
14) What is wrong with the following
sentence? John drank a cherry vanilla coke; and Robin drank just a cherry coke.
15) What is wrong with the following
sentence?
After the football game there will be
a Homecoming dance.
16) What is wrong with the following
sentence? Lance is coming home after the football game, because he needs his rest.
17) What is wrong with the following
sentence?
The football game was so much fun, I
hope I can go back next Friday.
18) What is wrong with the following
sentence? After the football game I slept for 12 hours, and I almost missed my bus the next day.
19) What is wrong with the following
sentence? The teacher screamed, and the teacher yelled, while all the students shook in their seats.
LAST QUESTION: 6 POINTS (2 each)
Make these groups of words into a
complex sentence, a compound sentence, and a compound-complex sentence. You may add words or punctuation of you need to. You may also not use all the words below if you dont need to. Kenny stole my lunch. I punched his face. The cop arrested me.