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The word order of the simple sentence is generally retained in the compound sentence:
subject verb object conjunction subject verb complement
Jimmy fell off his bike, but (he) was unhurt
The co-ordinating conjunctions which can be used to form compound sentences are: and. and then, but, for nor, or so, yet, either or neither nor, not only but (also/as well/too). These can be used for
The compound sentence
the purposes of addition (and), contrast (but, yet), choice (or), reason (for), continuation (and then) and consequence or result (so). However, a single conjunction like and can serve a variety of purposes to express:
- addition: We were talking and laughing (= in addition to)
- result: He fell heavily and broke his arm (= so) -condition: Weed the garden and I'll pay you £5 (= If...then)
- sequence: He finished lunch and went shopping (= then)
- contrast: Tom's 15 and still sucks his thumb (= despite this)
Joining sentence patterns to make compound sentences
The five simple sentence patterns [> 1 8] can be joined by means of co-ordinating conjunctions (P1 = Pattern 1, etc.):
| subject Frank | verb manner (P1) worked hard | + (subject) and (he) | verb became | complement (P2) an architect |
| subject I | verb object (P3) ha ve got a cold | + subject so I | verb m going | place (P1) to bed |
| subject They | verb object complement (P5) made him chairman | + (subject) but (they) | verb didn t increase | object (P3) his salary |
| subject Her birthday | verb complement (P2) is next Monday | + subject so I | verb must buy | object object (P4) her a present |
