The compound/complex sentence: This adds one or more subordinate clauses to a compound sentence, as in this revision of #4: “Madonna was once the holy name of a blessed virgin, ...

Compound sentences have more than one verb and contain two or more clauses. The clauses in a compound sentence still make sense on their own and so we use coordinating conjunctions, such as 'and ...

Whenever you are re-structuring sentences, keep in mind that you have plenty of readily-available, effective tools to employ. A particularly useful one consists of four parts — they are the rhetorical ...

A dependent clause cannot stand alone, though they often contain both a subject and a verb. Where independent clauses express complete thoughts, dependent clauses do not, and left on their own, ...

An independent clause is basically a complete sentence; it can stand on its own and make sense. An independent clause consists of a subject (e.g. “the dog”) and a verb (e.g. “barked”) creating a ...

This is called a compound-complex sentence: As soon as the children heard the bell, they started shouting and embracing one another. Here we have two main clauses: They started shouting.

Study Tips: Use a variety of sentence types and structures in your writing. Include a range of simple, compound and complex sentences as well as concession, modals, cause and effect and other ...

I read an article last month about the lost art of diagramming sentences, a once-required skill that many American children had to master if they wanted to pass English back in the mid-20th century.

This is called a compound-complex sentence: As soon as the children heard the bell, they started shouting and embracing one another. Here we have two main clauses: They started shouting.