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Is the sentence in #2 Simple, Compound, or Complex ? Explain how you know.

Warm Up 12/10/12

Is the sentence in #2 Simple, Compound, or Complex ? Explain how you know.

The children’s carrot cake won a prize in the school baking contest.

For the annual contest, all of the contestants develop a new recipe by themselves.

excitement

reflection

It is simple because there is one independent clause, containing a subject and a predicate.

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Is the sentence in #2 Simple, Compound, or Complex ? Explain how you know.

Warm Up 12/11/12

Is the sentence in #2 Simple, Compound, or Complex ? Explain how you know.

Shelly rode her bike faster than she had ever ridden before.

Until she read the map, she didn’t have any idea where she was.

three

The sentence in #2 is complex. It contains a dependent clause and an independent clause.

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3. WITHOUT LOOKING AT YOUR NOTES, list the most common Coordinating Conjunctions. _____________________________________________________________________________

Warm Up 12/12/12

3. WITHOUT LOOKING AT YOUR NOTES, list the most common Coordinating Conjunctions. _____________________________________________________________________________

Part of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first Indiana Jones movie, took place in Egypt.

Almost everybody in my family lives near Boston, Massachusetts.

For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So

Big cities’ tall buildings

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