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Simple and compound sentences
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- [Voiceover] Hello Grammarians. Hello Paige. - [Voiceover] Hi David. - [Voiceover] I say hello to you and I say hello to the grammarians. - [Voiceover] That was an
interesting thing to say. - [Voiceover] Yeah, it's cause
there's a compound sentence. - [Voiceover] I see. - [Voiceover] So there's this
distinction made in grammar, between simple and compound sentences. And today Paige, you and I are going to cover those differences. - [Voiceover] Let's do it. - [Voiceover] So, a simple
sentence is really just what it says on the 10. A simple sentence consists of one subject and one predicate, and that's it. - [Voiceover] Right. - [Voiceover] So in the sentence, I bought my friends some candy, alright we got our one subject, I. And then we have our one predicate, bought my friends some candy. - [Voiceover] Mhmm. - [Voiceover] Now all of this together is what we call an independent clause. I don't wanna hit that too hard right now. But you know, when you have this set of subject and a predicate together, and it can be a sentence, that's called an independent clause. I'm not even gonna write that down. - [Voiceover] Yeah. - [Voiceover] But a compound
sentence is basically two or more simple
sentences joined together. So that would be two
subjects plus two predicates. Or more, two, three, a bajillion. - [Voiceover] Sure. - [Voiceover] That would be
a very long sentence to read, but you could do it, it would be a very very compound sentence. So I visited the beach and
I got a really bad sunburn. When we're looking at this,
this is really two sentences together, joined by
the comma and this and. Alright, so we have our subject, I visited the beach, I
got a really bad sunburn. And we have our two predicates, I visited the beach, got
a really bad sunburn. - [Voiceover] So the
subject in both these cases is I right, but it's sort of separate. It's like, I'm doing
two different actions. - [Voiceover] Correct. - [Voiceover] What's
important is even if it's the same subject, if it's I both times. Well I don't know how to say this, but just, if it were, I visited the beach and got a really bad sunburn. - [Voiceover] Then it
would be a simple sentence. - [Voiceover] Then it's simple. - [Voiceover] Okay so
Paige, I'm looking at this and I see I twice. What if I wanted to condense
this sentence further? - [Voiceover] Okay. - [Voiceover] What does that give us? Is this a simple sentence
or a compound sentence? Because this looks like
what you would call a compound predicate. - [Voiceover] Right, since
there's only one subject in this sentence, there's only
I and it's only said once. Right, you don't have, I visited the beach and I got a really bad sunburn. That whole thing, visited the beach and got a really bad sunburn, is you're right, it is
a compound predicate. - [Voiceover] But what
you're saying is I couldn't divide this up into two sentences, unless I put in another subject. Right, you can say, I visited the beach, and that could be a sentence on its own. But you can't say, and
got a really bad sunburn, as it's own sentence. - [Voiceover] Okay, so both
of these things are simple. So even though this is
a compound predicate, it's technically one predicate. - [Voiceover] Right, it's -- - [Voiceover] And even if I'd written, Paige and I visited the beach and I got a really bad sunburn, that would still be a compound subject, but it wouldn't be two
sentences squished together, it would be one kind of long sentence. - [Voiceover] Right. You can have a compound subject
or a compound predicate, but that doesn't make
it a compound sentence. What makes it a compound sentence, is you have two parts that
can stand on their own as individual sentences, and they're sort of being put together. - [Voiceover] So let me
change what I wrote here, to just say, instead of two
subjects and two predicates. Cause I think that's confusing in light of this information, let's just
say it is two simple sentences. - [Voiceover] Right, or
two independent clauses. You know, that terminology. - [Voiceover] Or two, yeah. And if you don't, never
fear, we'll cover it, and you can learn anything. David out. - [Voiceover] Paige out.