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Example sentences for "compound sentence"

  • If we say, The boys sing and the girls play, we have a compound sentence, composed of two simple sentences, The boys sing, The girls play.

  • Each of these clauses is a complete sentence in itself, but they are combined into one compound sentence by the use of the co-ordinate conjunction, and.

  • The second and connects the two clauses forming the compound sentence.

  • Clauses united in this way may have a compound subject and a compound predicate, but two complete clauses must be united by a co-ordinate conjunction in order to form a compound sentence.

  • When they are used to join the principal clauses of a compound sentence, a comma is not sufficient punctuation between the clauses.

  • The comma is used before the coördinate conjunction in a compound sentence.

  • Compound sentence: Many people still belittle business, calling it humdrum routine and sordid money-making, but this view needs revising.

  • Two or more independent simple sentences may be coordinated to form a compound sentence in one of two ways: either without a connective, or with a connective.

  • The clauses of a compound sentence, when short and closely connected, should be separated by a comma; as, I finished my work, and then came home.

  • Before one enters upon the study of punctuation, it is necessary for him to understand what is meant by an adjunct, a simple sentence, and a compound sentence.

  • I submitted, for it was in vain to resist;" in this example, for is a conjunction, because it connects the two members of a compound sentence.

  • A compound sentence in which one or more of the coördinate clauses are complex is called a compound complex sentence.

  • A compound sentence consists of two or more independent coördinate clauses, which may or may not be joined by conjunctions.

  • A compound sentence may be contracted by simply omitting from one clause such words as may readily be supplied from the other.

  • This is a compound sentence because it is made up of independent clauses.

  • A Compound Sentence is a sentence composed of two or more independent clauses.

  • Two ideas are sometimes stated as of equal importance (compound sentence), when one is really dependent upon the other (complex sentence).

  • To separate the principal clauses in a compound sentence.

  • Occasionally, in a compound sentence, particularly when it consists of three or more short statements, commas are used instead of semicolons.

  • This question is really answered in the preceding paragraph, for a simple sentence is usually shorter than a complex or a compound sentence.

  • The following sentences illustrate the common relations that may exist between the clauses of a compound sentence.

  • Certainly the last two sentences could be united into a compound sentence, nor would it be straining the structure to put all three sentences into one.

  • A colon is sometimes used to mark a strong independence in the parts of a compound sentence.

  • A semicolon is used to separate the parts of a compound sentence if they are involved, or contain commas.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "compound sentence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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