Simple or Compound?
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- 🐠 Clownfish live in sea anemones.
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Simple
- 🌧️ It rained all day, but we still went outside.
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Compound
- 🦋 Butterflies taste food with their feet.
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Simple
- 🏔️ The mountain was steep, so they camped halfway up.
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Compound
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Teaching Notes
A simple sentence has one subject-verb pair. A compound sentence has two, joined by for/and/nor/but/or/yet/so (FANBOYS) with a comma.
Vocabulary
Common Mistakes
- Calling a long simple sentence "compound" because it sounds complex
- Missing the comma before the conjunction in a compound sentence
Extension Activities
- Write a simple sentence about a pet.
- Write a compound sentence about a favorite game.
- Identify sentences in a story.
Parent Tip
Ask your child to identify simple and compound sentences in books you read together.