Sentences

Definition #

Subject + verb with a complete thought. For effective communication make sure that one sentence expresses only one clean and distilled thought.

Four Sentence structures #

• Simple sentence

  contains a subject and a predicate with complete thought.

• Complex sentence

  One independent clause and one or more dependent clause

• Compound sentence

  two or more independent Clauses.

• Compound-Complex sentence

  contains at least three clauses—two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.

Four types of sentences #

• Declarative sentence

• Imperative sentence

• Interrogative sentence

• Exclamatory sentence