EXERCISE 1. EACH NUMBERED LINE CONSISTS OF TWO SENTENCES. COMBINE EACH...
5. The Tigers play their games in the city’s stadium. The Lions, too, play their games in
the city’s stadium.
Compound Sentences
As we learned in Part One (pages 105–107), two or more simple sentences can be
combined to form a compound sentence.
SIMPLE SENTENCE
: Dogs show affection for their owners.
SIMPLE SENTENCE
: Cats are more aloof.
COMPOUND SENTENCE
: Dogs show affection for their owners, but cats
are more aloof.
The parts of a compound sentence are often joined together by and, but, or, or nor.
These “joining words” are called coordinating conjunctions.
When two sentences are joined to make a compound sentence, the two main parts are
called clauses. Because these two parts can stand by themselves as complete sentences,
they are called independent clauses.
COMPOUND SENTENCE
: The bell rang, AND students quickly filled
the halls.
COMPOUND SENTENCE
: Are you coming to the game, OR have you
made other plans?
COMPOUND SENTENCE