Sentence Types

Talofa Lava, Today I had a google meet with Mrs Tele'a for literacy. For writing I am learning how to write a simple, compound and a complex writing. These are the things that you need to do in order for you to have a good sentence type.


1 The words make sense and express a complete thought.


2 It begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop, exclamation mark or question mark.


3 It contains a predicate, and a subject. The predicate, or verb tells what the subject, or noun, is doing.


The other thing is how a simple sentence.

The most basic type of sentence is the simple sentence, which contains only one clause. A simple sentence can be as short as one word.


The Compound.

A compound sentence is when you join two sentences together using a conjunction.
The most common conjunctions are; and, although, because, but, if, or, thought, where, whether.
Conjunctions that indicate time are; before, until, since, when, whenever, while.



Last of not least complex sentences and things you need to do.



Complex sentences are made up of one main idea that is supported by
one or more related ideas. The main ideas does not need to come first.
Complex sentences need punctuation, usually commas.

WHERE DOES THE PUNCTUATION GO?

It was a beautiful summer’s day as Alan, with his prize held high, paced towards the pier.
It was a beautiful summer’s day (probably the hottest that year) as Alan paced towards the pier.
It was a beautiful summer’s day as Alan paced -with a bounce in his step- towards the pier.