{"title":"Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences","authors":"Sean Ruday","doi":"10.4324/9781003004950-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003004950-6","url":null,"abstract":"1. Simple sentences have 2 parts: a subject and a predicate. 2. Another name for an independent clause is a simple sentence. 3. Draw a line ( / ) between the subject and predicate in these simple sentences . a) A large crowd / watched the basketball game. b) My brother / went home after the game. c) Nancy / collects foreign postage stamps. d) Joe’s Labrador retriever / jumped the fence. e) The ruler / snapped in half.","PeriodicalId":155941,"journal":{"name":"The Elementary School Grammar Toolkit","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132324089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}