Mgtr.Guillermo.Mendoza

1. By
Mgtr. Guillermo Mendoza
• Compound-Complex
Sentences

2. Compound-Complex
Sentence

3. • This type of sentence has more than one
part that can stand alone, and at least one
that cannot.
• Conjunctions link the different parts of
this sentence.
Compound-Complex
Sentence

4. Compound-Complex Sentence
Since we wanted to have fun,
my girlfriend and I went to San Juan yesterday,
and we danced all night.

5. Since we wanted to have fun,
my girlfriend and I went to San Juan,
and we danced all night.
Subject Predicate
Subordinating
Conjunction
Coordinating
Conjunction
Part that cannot stand alone
Compound-Complex Sentence

6. Compound-Complex Sentence
Mike is popular
he is good looking,
because
he is not very happy.
but

7. References
Writing Academic English, Second Edition, by
Alice Oshima and Ann Hogue. White Plains:
Addison, Wesley, Longman, 1999.
The Little, Brown Handbook, by H. Ramsey
Fowler and Jane E. Aaron, Pearson, 2004.