Short Chart
Simple
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Complex
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Compound
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Principal verb+ ing
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When/Since/As + sub + verb …………
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Sub-ordinate Clause
and Principal clause
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Being……
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Since/As + sub + Be verb …………
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Sub-ordinate Clause
and so/therefore Principal
clause
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Having……….
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Since/As + sub + Have verb …………
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Sub-ordinate Clause
and so/therefore Principal
clause
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on/at/in/during+ time word
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When + it+ be verb+ time word…….
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it+ be verb+ time word and Principal clause
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Transform the following Simple sentences into Complex and Compound
a) Drinking
water, the writer wanted to save money.
b) Finding
a large thorn, he pulled it out.
c) Realizing
it we should try to be emotionally balanced.
d) One
night he woke up hearing the sound of rain.
e) Completing his study, he went to
play.
f) The weather being very hot, we could
not go to play.
g) In winter, it remains
idle but it works hard in spring.
h) During the rainy season,
it assumes a terrible shape.
i)
Being honest, he could not tell a lie.
j)
The water being very cold, I could not
drink it.
k) The
weather being cold, we can not go out.
l)
Having forgotten him, I went out.
m) The
sun having set, we returned home.
Transform the following sentences into Simple and Compound
a)
Since there was no rain,
he was worried.
b)
Since they played well,
they won the match.
c)
As he saw the police, he
ran away.
d)
When the lunch was over,
she went away.
e)
As the writer was poor,
he could not entertain her properly.
f)
When it is spring, the
cuckoo sings.
g)
When it was winter, I
was in London.
h)
Since there was no rain,
he was worried.
i)
When a healthy man is an
asset to his family, an unhealthy man is a liability.
j)
When it is summer, it
becomes emaciated.
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