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What is the Difference Between a Compound Sentence and a Complex Sentence?
A variety of sentence structures helps your writing grade. But, too much variety makes the communication more complicated and less effective.
Each sentence – simple sentence, complex sentence, compound sentence – serves its purpose. Your choice of sentence structure should be driven by the message you want to send.
The Simple Sentence is often called a Declarative Sentence because it makes a direct statement. The structure begins with a verb, such as “run” or “eat.” It can consist of a verb alone. For example, “Run!” or “Eat.” Each of these gives an order to the reader in a complete thought.
The Simple Sentence usually has more words, such as a subject and/or object. For instance:
Mary runs marathons.
Here Mary is the subject of runs, and marathons is the object.
In this one, Eddie does the action eats, and what he eats is pizza.
This structure joins together two or more simple sentences. In this case, we call the Simple Sentence an Independent Clause because it could be a stand alone Simple Sentence if you prefer.
A Coordinating Conjunction usually links the Independent Clauses. And, those Coordinating Conjunctions are the words for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so. (These are always preceded by a comma when linking clauses.)
Mary runs marathons, but Eddie eats pizza.
The Coordinating Conjunction – but - links two complete thoughts that show a contradiction. You need to choose the Compound Sentence Structure when you want to show a logical relationship between the parts. The logic in and means in addition to, yet means despite, and for means because, and so on.
Punctuation option: You may link the Independent Clauses with a Semicolon. The Semicolon suggests a close connection between the ideas, but it eliminates the Coordinating Conjunction.
Mary runs marathons; Eddie eats pizza.
Structure Option: The Compound Sentence usually has two Independent Clauses, but it could have more.
Mary runs marathons, but Eddie eats pizza, yet they remain good friends.
This Compound Sentence has three Independent Clauses, each joined by Coordinating Conjunctions suggesting the logical connection between the thoughts. It is a good choice of sentence structure when you want to stress the parallelism or symmetry among the thoughts.
This structure links (one or more) Independent Clauses with (one or more) Dependent Clauses (sometimes labeled Subordinate Clauses).
The Dependent Clause does not express a complete thought and cannot stand alone as the Independent Clause does. The Dependent Clause needs something stronger to lean on.
Mary runs marathons while Eddie eats pizza.
Here, the word while makes the second clause dependent on the first clause. The linkage here is formed with a Conjunctive Adverb or transition phrase. Others include:
accordingly furthermore moreover similarly still hence namely also certainly indeed nonetheless then anyway indeed incidentally next otherwise now meanwhile finally
These words function as adverbs unless they link Dependent and Independent Clauses.
Punctuation Option: These words can link Independent Clauses if they are preceded by a Semicolon. For example.
Mary runs marathons; meanwhile, Eddie eats pizza.
There may also be more than two clauses in the Complex Sentence, such as
Mary runs marathons, but Eddie eats pizza; still, they remain good friends.
The Complex Sentence is correctly named because it can be a very complex structure. It exists to express thoughts that have a relationship in time, cause and effect, and space.
Conclusion: A variety of sentence forms helps you express your ideas well. However, the continuous use of Simple Sentences becomes monotonous. In other words, too many structures will make the communication too complex and, thereby, ineffective. Keep it simple!
