Friday, March 2, 2007

Reviewing clauses and phrases

College students are expected to know grammar, or the correct use of words in sentences. In every college English, History, Economics, or any other class, a student is expected to be able to use complex sentences as well as compound and simple sentences. A complex sentence has at least one dependent clause and an independent clause. A compound sentence is simply joining to independent clauses with the conjunction, “and.”

The simple sentence is just that: a simple independent clause.