Name : Asti Ayuningsih (321413025)

Class / Semester : 2/B

Writing 1

SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Experienced writers use a variety of sentences to make their writing interesting and lively. Too many simple sentences, for example, will sound choopy and immature while too many long sentences will be difficult to read and hard to understand.

Simple Sentence

A simple sentence, also called an independent clause, contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought.

Some students like to study in the morning.Juan and Arturo play football every afternoon.Alica goes to the library and studies every day.

Compound Sentence

A compound sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinator. The coordinators are as follows : for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. Except for very short sentences, coordinators are always preceded by a comma.

I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to speak English.Alejandro played football, so Maria went shopping.Alejandro played football, for Maria went shopping.

Complex Sentence

A complex sentence has an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses. A complex sentence always has a subordinator such as because, since, after, although, or when (and many others) or a relative pronoun such as that, who, or which.

When he handed in his homework, he forgot to give the teacher the last page.The teacher returned the homework after she noticed the error.The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow.After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies.Juan and Maria went to the movies after they finished studying.