1. My bonnie lies over the ocean.

simple, compound, or complex?

3. Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

2. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

4. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL.

simple, compound, or complex?

5. Hitler was better-looking than Churchill, he was a better dresser than Churchill, he had more hair, he told funnier jokes, and he could dance the pants off of Churchill!

6. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they're fascist.

simple, compound, or complex?

7. When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.

8. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture, and kill them.

9. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

simple, compound, or complex?

10. Get busy livin' or get busy dyin’.

11. I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

12. Go ahead, make my day.

simple, compound, or complex?

13. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

14. You never know what you're gonna get.

15. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

simple, compound, or complex?

1. My bonnie lies over the ocean.

Loose or Periodic Syntax?

3. Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

2. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

4. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL.

5. Hitler was better-looking than Churchill, he was a better dresser than Churchill, he had more hair, he told funnier jokes, and he could dance the pants off of Churchill!

Loose or Periodic Syntax?

6. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they're fascist.

7. When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.

8. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture, and kill them.

Loose or Periodic Syntax?

9. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

10. Get busy livin' or get busy dyin’.

11. I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Loose or Periodic Syntax?

12. Go ahead, make my day.

13. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

14. You never know what you're gonna get.

Loose or Periodic Syntax?

15. Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.

Loose or Periodic Syntax?

1. My bonnie lies over the ocean.

3. Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life.

2. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.

loose to periodic

complex to compound

periodic to loose

4. Open the pod bay doors, please, HAL.

5. Hitler was better-looking than Churchill, he was a better dresser than Churchill, he had more hair, he told funnier jokes, and he could dance the pants off of Churchill!

Loose to periodic with a long hyphen

A correct parallel construction with only one use of the word ‘Churchill.’

6. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they're fascist.

7. When I first saw you, I thought you were handsome.

8. I wanted to meet interesting and stimulating people of an ancient culture, and kill them.

Compound to simple

Complex to simple, no comma

Compound to simple

9. I love the smell of napalm in the morning.

10. Get busy livin' or get busy dyin’.

11. I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Simple led with prep phrase

Compound to simple

Complex to simple, adj. phrase to adj.

12. Go ahead, make my day.

13. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.

Compound with explicit CC (coordinating conjunction)

Objects (liver, fava beans, a nice chianti) in a different order

15.Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine. compound, explicit cc, no ‘of’.

Review:

SIMPLE SENTENCE one independent clause (may have prep phrase, other clauses, but no other inde