Compound sentence Vs Complex sentence

Compound sentence

Take a look at these sentences!!

1. Are you going to the party, or will you stay at home?
2. Cats are funny animals, and they are also intelligent
3. My mother moved to Jakarta, but my father moved to Bandung

Two sentences are connected using connectors (and, or, but) and they result a compound sentence. And, Or, But are called coordinate conjunction. When coordinate conjunction join two sentences, the conjunction is normally preceded by a comma.

Complex sentence

Take a look at these sentences!!

— Since bill was sick, he could not come to school

— John will go back home after he finishes his study

— Although he wanted , the little boy didn’t take the candy

The three sentences above are called complex sentences. the complex sentence has 2 parts: independent and dependant clause.

The red words in the sentences above are conjunctions.

Independent and dependent clause

— The independent clause:

is a complete thought and can stand as a sentence by itself.

— The dependent clause:

is not a complete thought. It depends on the independent clause to get its meaning.

The dependent clause can come before or after the independent clause in a complex sentence. If it comes before, it is generally separated from the independent clause by a comma. But if it comes after the independent clause, it doesn’t have a comma.

Here are some conjunctions used in complex sentence

To express time : After, before, since, until, when, while, as

To express cause : Because, since, as

To express condition : If , unless

To express contrast : Although, even though, though

To express purpose : In order to, so that

To express identification : That, when, where, which, who