Sentence examples for compound sentences from inspiring English sources

Calvin Trillin's sinuous, compound sentences also enchanted me.

I used to think in long compound sentences with subordinate clauses and even the odd polysyllable.

Sometimes we want to express an idea with more complexity than simple and compound sentences allow.

Syntactic complexity* Division between compound sentences and number of sentences.

However, this assumption is not suitable for compound sentences.

Simple sentences possess single opinion about a product, while compound sentences have multiple opinions expressed together.

A sexually abused child raised on welfare can become a billionaire talk-show host, and a president who attended Andover, Yale and Harvard Business School can still have trouble completing a compound sentence.

MAE SOT, Thailand — Prodded by his English teacher, a teenage refugee from Myanmar wrote a compound sentence on a primitive chalkboard for the benefit of the American first lady, Laura Bush, and her daughter Barbara.

When we do this, we call the individual parts clauses and the combined whole, including the conjunction, a compound sentence (Cheerleaders are returning to Broadway, and theatergoers will have 12 weeks to see them).

But while those polls may have bolstered Senator Harry Reid's decision this week to include the public option in the merged Senate bill, a closer examination shows once again that public opinion on this issue shifts and shimmies depending on how the question is phrased and what is stripped away from -- or added to -- a compound sentence.

Traditionally, the semicolon has three uses: it can replace a comma in a series that includes interior commas, such as this one; it can replace a comma and a conjunction in a compound sentence, creating a subtle relationship between clauses; and it can be used artfully to suggest hesitations and inflections, a dangerous practice best explored in a graduate seminar on Henry James.