This document provides an introduction to complex sentences. It defines independent and dependent clauses, and reviews simple and compound sentence structures. New formulas for complex sentences are introduced, using a dependent clause followed by an independent clause or vice versa. Common subordinating conjunctions are listed and examples of complex sentences are provided and then reversed. Students are assigned to write different sentence types, including two complex sentences with subordinating conjunctions in the middle.

1. Are you ready to
RUMBLE?!
Intro. to Complex Sentences
Please turn to your Notes
section in your journals.

2. A Quick Review
Independent Clause (IC) = Subject + Verb
Dependent Clause (DC) = Subordinator + Subject + Verb
Sentence formulas we know:
Follow me to find
IC. out how to use
the
IC, cc IC. SUBORDINATOR!
IC; IC.

3. A New Formula
Independent Clause (IC) = Subject + Verb
Dependent Clause (DC) = Subordinator + Subject + Verb
Today’s new formulas:
These are DC, IC.
COMPLEX
sentences. IC DC.

4. In order to make a DEPENDENT CLAUSE, you have to
use a SUBORDINATOR.
Here are some common subordinators:
because if when so that
after as if whatever whenever

5. !!!

6. So, again...
Independent Clause (IC) = Subject + Verb
Dependent Clause (DC) = Subordinator + Subject + Verb
Today’s new formulas:
These are DC, IC.
COMPLEX
sentences. IC DC.

7. Also important to note...
Complex sentences ALWAYS show
relationships between things.

8. Let’s look at some examples from the
grammar textbook.
•Although Mr. Fisher seems like a concerned father, he is
inattentive to Paul.
•After she talked to the principal, Mrs. Fisher worried about
the lack of a disaster plan.
•Because Paul is serious about soccer, the Seagulls accept
him as a teammate.
•When anyone touches Paul’s glasses or eyes, he goes
berserk.
•If textbook authors continue writing bizarre sentences such
as those listed above, students will not take them seriously.

9. And now we can reverse them!
•He is inattentive to Paul although Mr. Fisher seems like a
concerned father.
•Mrs. Fisher worried about the lack of a disaster plan after
she talked to the principal.

10. Assignment
On a piece of notebook paper, compose
the following:
*2 simple sentences
*2 compound sentences using a comma
and conjunction
*1 compound sentence using a semicolon
*2 complex sentences beginning with a
subordinating conjunction
*2 complex sentences with
subordinating conjunction in the middle