Coumpound and Complex Sentence

• Coumpound Sentence

Sentences :

-          - Are you going to the party with us or  will you stay home?

-          - Dolphins are friendly animals and they are also intelligent

-          -  My brother moved to Jakarta and I moved to Bandung

        Two sentences are related using connectors ( and, but, or ) and they result a compound sentence. And, but, or, are called coordinate conjunctions. When a coordinate conjunction join two sentences, the conjunction is normally preceded by a comma.

• Complex Sentence

1     Since Jack wrecked his car,    he has had no way to get to work

        dependent clause                     independent clause

2    Ali is going to go back to his country,    after he finishes his study

independent clause                   dependent clause

-          The independent clause is a complete thought and can stand as a sentence by itself. The dependent clause, however, is not a complete thought. It depends on the independent clause to get its meaning.

-          The dependent clause can come before or after the independent clause in a complex sentence, if it comes before, it is generally separated from independent clause.

Here are some of conjunction used in complex sentence.

1.     To express time : after, before, since, until, when, while, as
2.    To express cause : because, since, as
3.    To express condition : if, unless
4.    To express contrast : although, even though, though
5.    To express purpose : in order to, so that  
6.    To express identification : that, when, where, which, who