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Types of Sentences

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Match the following columns to make sentences.
Column A Column B
The kettle live in nests.
Sitting on a branch is on the stone.

The girls yet he is very humble.
Birds are singing and dancing.
He is famous the monkey gibbered.

Let’s Learn Types of Sentences

A set of words that makes a statement, command, question or exclamation is called a
sentence. It contains a subject and a predicate.
Sentences are of three types.

Simple Compound Complex
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Simple Sentence

A simple sentence is one which has a subject and a predicate. For example:
They rested in the afternoon.
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The moon shone bright.
O
Sheela went to the store alone.
O
The cow is eating the grass.
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I hate loud music.
O
In the above sentences, all the highlighted words/phrases are subjects, and all the underlined
groups of words are predicates.
The part of the sentence that contains a subject and a predicate is called a clause.

A simple sentence has an independent clause.

Compound Sentence
A compound sentence is made up of two principal clauses joined by a coordinating
conjunction. For example:

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