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Thecompound sentences are those that have more than one verb conjugated in a personal way. For example: (We cook) and (they wash the dishes).
Compound sentences can be of different types:
- Coordinated sentences. Syntactically independent propositions are combined through connectors or links of different types (additive, adversative, distributive, explanatory). For example: (Come) and (I'll explain).
- Subordinate clauses or juxtaposed: There is a proposition that depends syntactically on another, which is the main proposition. In compound sentences juxtaposedthese the propositions that comprise them are combined and make sense through punctuation marks: comma, semicolon, colon or period. For example: I don't like the shirt (that you gave me).
Compound sentences are also known ascomplex sentences. In addition to the previous classification, there is also an additional type of compound sentence, the adjunctive, which adds an adjunct proposition, usually an interjection or a vocative, to another proposition.
Simple sentences, as opposed to compound ones, are the simplest syntactic structures and are made up of a maximum of two phrases, one nominal and one verbal. For example: The child eats candy.
The compound sentence should not be confused with the simple sentence with a compound subject. For example: My uncle and my cousins always spend the summer in Mar del Plata. Not even with the simple sentence with compound predicate. For example: The new actress sings and dances beautifully.
- See also: Simple and compound sentences
Examples of compound sentences
- We cook and they wash the dishes.
- The referee arrived on time, but the players did not show up at the stadium.
- The waiter took the orders and the food arrived in no time.
- They are closing, you must hurry.
- Laura didn't go to the party; her mother was not feeling well.
- Martín will come tomorrow, but his girlfriend doesn't know.
- Oh! How many people in this room!
- Suddenly he felt very tired and a taxi picked him up.
- Taxes will increase and the currency will be devalued.
- What a danger! Children travel without their seat belts!
- Let's get in the chairs, at any moment it will rain.
- The men tune the guitars, the women put tables and chairs together, the guitar playing is about to leave.
- I thought it was a very good documentary, too bad the sound was not quite good.
- His temperament is particularly unstable: sometimes he laughs, sometimes he cries.
- You have to take courage and face the problem right now or your mother will reproach you.
- Woody Allen writes his scripts and his team is very professional.
- When the news was known, many were enraged, a few resigned and left.
- Better not go out, it rains a lot and they announced snowfall at dawn.
- The big day has arrived: today Susana defends her thesis, she worked no less than 4 years on it.
- Doors will open at 2pm; Only thereafter will special guests and the general public be allowed in.
- Continue with: Simple sentences
