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How do you feel about complex sentences? It's complicated, right? Well luckily for you we've got a video that'll take care of that right away. Goodbye awkward Facebook status.
Transcript
- 00:04
[Coop and Dino singing]
- 00:13
Sometimes it's nice to keep things simple... [A pizza appears]
- 00:16
A simple pepperoni pizza.
- 00:17
A simple bright red bicycle.
- 00:19
A simple haircut. [Man riding a bike]
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- 00:20
But other times, it's fun to complicate things a little bit.
- 00:23
Every single topping ever!
- 00:25
A jet pack, rocket launcher and disco ball bike!
- 00:29
And a fully-functioning flying drone weaved right into your hair! [Man riding a bike with a drone flys off with his hair]
- 00:32
Okay, we might have gone a little too far on that last one.
- 00:35
Anyway, the point is, complicating things can be fun!
- 00:38
And we already know about simple and compound sentences so today, let's complicate it! [Finger transforms painting of stickman to assorted colors]
- 00:42
But because we're nice, we'll give you a recap…
- 00:45
Simple sentences have one compete thought with a noun, a verb, a capital letter and [Coop discussing simple sentences]
- 00:49
an ending punctuation mark.
- 00:52
A compound sentence, on the other hand, is when two complete thoughts are glued together
- 00:55
with a comma and conjunction. [Dino teaching about compound sentences]
- 00:59
So you know about conjunctions – but maybe you're having a hard time remembering all of them.
- 01:04
And hey, it is a lot to remember, so we get it.
- 01:06
We barely remember our own name!
- 01:08
But we know it now!
- 01:10
It's…it's… [People sitting in a meeting room]
- 01:12
….Shoot.
- 01:13
We forgot it again.
- 01:14
Why does this keep happening?!
- 01:15
…Anyway!
- 01:16
If you're having trouble remembering all the conjunctions, we have one more trick up our [Hand removes piece of paper from up sleeve]
- 01:19
sleeves for ya…
- 01:20
Just remember the word FANBOYS!
- 01:21
That's...
- 01:22
For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So.
- 01:26
Fanboys!
- 01:27
Any time you see one of these after a comma, voila, you've got yourself a compound sentence.
- 01:31
Nifty, huh?
- 01:33
Phew.
- 01:33
Recap over!
- 01:34
You can take those stylish caps off now. [Girl has cap taken off her head and stands by painting]
- 01:36
It's time to get a little more complex…
- 01:39
With complex sentences!
- 01:40
Here's the thing about complex sentences.
- 01:41
They have a comma, just like a compound sentence... [Dino teaching complex sentences]
- 01:44
But plot twist!
- 01:45
This comma isn't followed by a conjunction.
- 01:47
Instead, the comma is used to separate a dependent and independent clause.
- 01:52
Confused?
- 01:53
We don't blame you.
- 01:54
So let's get to an example.
- 01:55
“If I turn in all my homework this week, my teacher will give me a piece of candy.” [Example of complex sentence]
- 02:00
See how the comma separates the sentence into two sentences?
- 02:02
Well, if this was simply a compound sentence, then those two sentences should be complete ideas.
- 02:08
But look at the first half...
- 02:10
“If I turn in all my homework this week.” [First half of sentence highlighted yellow]
- 02:12
That's certainly not a complete thought.
- 02:14
We call that a “dependent clause” since it depends on the second half of the sentence.
- 02:18
Meanwhile, the second half, “My teacher will give me a piece of candy” is a complete
- 02:21
thought, so we call that an independent clause since it can be independent, aka stand all
- 02:27
by itself, and still make sense.
- 02:29
Here's a few more examples…
- 02:31
After five years, she still had feelings for him. [Examples of complex sentences]
- 02:34
See how, "after five years," isn't a complete sentence, but "she still had feelings for him," is?
- 02:39
Yup!
- 02:40
Complex sentence.
- 02:41
And one more…
- 02:42
Even though my sister invited me, I decided not to go to the party.
- 02:45
"Even though my sister invited me," isn't complete, "I decided not to go to the party" is! [Dependent clause highlighted yellow]
- 02:50
Phew.
- 02:51
Easy as pie.
- 02:52
Complex sentences...
- 02:53
Not so complex after all, huh? [Person draws a line through complex and replaces with simple]
- 02:55
One could say complex sentences are actually pretty simple.
- 02:58
Except don't say that.
- 03:00
They're definitely complex.