Whats the difference The simple, compound, and complex sentence!

Whats the difference The simple, compound, and complex sentence! Learn the difference between simple, compound and complex sentences with anticipations, interruptions, and afterthoughts. In just 17 minutes, you will know how to punctuate and structure every sentence you will ever want to write.   This article can also help you understand how to avoid common errors like fragment, run-on, and comma splice errors because understanding sentence structure is key to understanding punctuation, also. Writing concise sentences by being mindful of sentence structure will also help you avoid wordiness. Watch the Video Learn the difference between a simple sentence, a compound sentence, and a complex sentence in 17 minutes by watching this video. You will never need another explanation. Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences There are three basic sentences types. They get their names from their structures. The structures can be either simple, joined as equals, or joined with a subordinate. Ill explain. What is a simple sentence? A simple sentence has a subject and a verb and sometimes an object or complement. The subject is who or what the sentence is about. The verb and the object or complement together are often called the predicate. A simple sentence has two parts: its subject and its predicate. She smiled. (subject + verb)She looked pretty. (subject + verb + complement)Simple sentence What is a compound sentence? A compound sentence has two or more simple sentences joined together, usually with a comma and a coordinating conjunction. She smiled, and she laughed. (Two sentences joined with a comma + coordinator.)Compound sentence. What is a complex sentence? A complex sentence is a simple sentence with subordinate clause joined to it. A subordinate clause depends on another clause to complete an idea, so we call subordinate clauses dependent clauses. She smiles when she is happy. (Independent clause + dependent clause)Complex sentence Error Correction Exercise:Learn how to correct comma errors Please follow and like us:

Go Off - English Phrasal Verb with Video and Examples

Go Off - English Phrasal Verb with Video and Examples One  English phrasal verb that always causes our students problems is go off.Generally, when English students come across this phrasal verb in class, they think it means the opposite of what it actually means. For instance:My alarm clock went off at 5 AM.A bomb goes off.Most of the time my students think this means that the alarm lost power, or was turned off.It actually means that the alarm sounded, or rang, at 5 AM. Most of the time English speakers will say that their alarm went off, rather than say that it rang or sounded. This is especially true in spoken English.What else can go off?In this particular sense of to go off, its used when something is activated, or when something explodes. So you can say:The bomb went off. (The bomb exploded.)The gun went off. (The gun was fired.)The alarm is going off. (The alarm is sounding.)To go off can have a similar, figurative meaning when talking about a persons actions:My boss went off on me for coming to work drunk.My wife will go off on me if I lose my job.The meaning of to go off in these last two sentences is to lose ones temper. In other words, the person going off was probably screaming and yelling at the other person.Additional Meanings of Go OffIn some countries, (not in the U.S.) to go off can mean that food has gone rotten:This milk smells bad, I think it has gone off. It can also mean that you have stopped liking something:People really went off Donald Trump after they heard some of the things he said. Below is a clip from one of my all time favorite movies, U-Turn. Its Joaquin Phoenix in it playing Toby N. Tucker, one of the most ridiculous characters hes ever played. In this clip, he uses go off at about 1:20. Enjoy! If you have trouble understanding Toby N. Tucker, write to us in comments.Click here to schedule a free trial class with a native English speaker via Skype An Hello! Could you write what people in the U.S. say when food has gone rotten? LOIEnglish An: To Go Bad to spoilFor example: The mi lk went bad.For example: The milk spoiled.