SIMPLE,COMPLEX AND COMPOUND SENTENCES

Class : 10th Subject: English Developed By : Rakeh Kumar School Name: G.H.S. Jabbowal (KPT) [email protected]

Student : Pawandeep Prabhdeep Kaur Manoreet Kaur Kushwant Dutt

THERE ARE THREE TYPES SENTANCE 1-SIMPLE 2-COMPLEX 3-COMPOUND IN THIS CHAPTER WE SHALL DEAL WITH THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN A SIMPLE SENTENCE AND A COMPLEX SENTENCE .

1.SIMPLE SENTENCE

A SIMPLE SENTENCE HAS ONLY ONE SUBJECT AND ONE PREDICATE . IT HAS ONLY ONE CLAUSE IN IT .

LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES: MOHAN WORKS HARD .

COMPLEX SENTENCE :

STUDY THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES : EACH OF SENTENCES GIVEN ABOVE OF ONE MAIN CLAUSE AND ONE DEPENDENT CLAUSE AS SHOWN IN THE TABLE BELOW.

WE DO NOT KNOW WHEN THE LETTER WILL COME .

COMPLEX SENTENCE :

The boy who won the match.

KINDS OF SUBORDINATE CLAUSES NOUN CLAUSE ADJECTIVE CLAUSE ADVERB CLAUSE

NOUN CLAUSE

A CLAUSE THAT PERFORMS THE FUNCTION OF A NOUN IS CALLED A NOUN CLAUSE .

SHE TOLD US THAT SHE HAD COME TOMMROW.

ADJECTIVE CLAUSE

A CLAUSE THAT FUNCTIONS LIKE AN ADJECTIVE IS CALLED AN ADJECTIVE CLAUSE.

AN ADJECTIVE CLAUSE QUALIFIES SOME NOUN OR PRONOUN IN THE MAIN CLAUSE OR [RINCIPAL CLAUSE.

ADJECTIVE CLAUSES CAN BE DIVIDED INTO TWO TYPES AS EXPLAINED BELOW.

KINDS OF ADJECTIVE CLAUSES:

Introduced by Relative Pronoun Introduced by Relative Adverb

INTRODUCED BY RELATIVE PRONOUN INTRODUCED BY SOME RELATIVE PRONOUN. SOMETIMES A PREPOSITION PRECEDES THE RELATIVE PRONOUN.

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD.

INTRODUCED BY RELATIVE ADVERB INTRODUCED BY SOME RELATIVE ADVERB.

THAT IS THE REASON WHY IT RAINS SO MUCH THERE.

ADVERB CLAUSE

AN ADVERB CLAUSE IS ONE WHICH PERFORMS THE FUNCATION OF AN ADVERB IN RELATION TO SOME WORD IN THE PRINCIPAL CLAUSE. IT MODIFIES A VERB, AN ADJECTIVE, OR AN ADVERB IN IT. IT INDICATES TIME, PLACE, REASON, MANNER, CONTRAST, OR CONDITION.

ADVERB CLAUSE SHOWING PLACE: WE KNOW WHERE SHE LIVES.

COMPUND SENTENCE

A COMPOUND SENTENCE IS MADE UP OF AT LEAST TWO CLAUSES. ALL ITS CLAUSES ARE OF EQUAL RANK, AND ARE CALLED CO-ORDINATE CLAUSES.

THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE ARE COMPOUND SENTENCES.

HE HAD A BATH AND WATCHED T.V.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE COMPLEX SENTENCE AND THE COMPOUND SENTENCE

BOTH THE COMPLEX SENTENCE AND THE COMPOUND SENTENCE ARE MADE UP OF LEAST TWO CLAUSES. THEN, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEM/ THE CLAUSES OF A COMPOUND SENTENCE ARE OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE, WHEREAS THIS IS NOT SO IN THE CASE OF A COMPLEX SENTENCE. IN A COMPLEX SENTENCE, ONE CLAUSE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE OTHER.

STUDY THE FOLLOWING CAREFULLY:

COMPOUND SENTENCE HE WORKED HARD SUCCEED BUT HE DID NOT CO-ORDINATE CLAUSE CLAUSE CO-ORDINATE CO-ORDINATING CONJUNCTION

HERE THE TWO CLAUSES ARE OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE COMPLEX SENTENCE HE DID NOT SUCCEED THOUGH HE DID NOT SUCCEED PRINCIPAL CLAUSE SUBORDINATE CLAUSE SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTION

COMPOUND SENTENCE

HERE THE PRINCIPAL CLAUSE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE SUBORDINATE CLAUSE.

EXERCISE

FILL IN BLANKS

1._________ WORKS HARD .

2.WE DO NOT _______ WHEN THE LETTER WILL COME 3.THE MAN ____ WHOM HE LIVED KILLED HIM.

4. WE KNOW _________ SHE LIVES.

5.WHERE THERE IS A WILL, _______ IS A WAY

ANSWERS

1 .MOHAN

WORKS HARD .

2.WE DO NOT KNOW WHEN THE LETTER WILL COME 3.THE MAN WITH WHOM HE LIVED KILLED HIM.

4. WE KNOW WHERE SHE LIVES.

5.WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY

Bibliography

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High School English Grammar & Composition by ‘WREN & MARTIN’

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Grammar & Composition for Class 10 th , P.S.E.B

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