Write Compound-Complex Sentences

Review clauses first with the phrases and clauses sheets. Then label sentence types before asking students to write their own compound-complex sentences.

Combine 6 sets of three short sentences into compound-complex sentences, starting with a storm. A compound-complex sentence has at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. The directions on the page read: Combine each set into one compound-complex sentence on the lines. Use a word like because, when or although and a word like and, but or so. An answer key is included.

Yes, both. We made it for 6th Grade sentences, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with simple, compound & complex sentences. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

A simple sentence has one independent clause, a compound sentence has two or more, a complex sentence has one independent and one or more dependent clauses, and a compound-complex sentence has two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.

Use a word like because, when or although for the dependent clause and a word like and, but or so to join the independent clauses. When the storm knocked out the power, we lit candles, and Grandma told stories.

No. Sofia and Ben hiked to the falls and ate lunch by the pool has two verbs but only one clause, so it is simple.