How to distinguish a simple sentence from a complex sentence

To form beautiful and coherent speech, it is important to distinguish between simple and complex sentences. Remembering these differences is not difficult at all, especially if you consolidate your knowledge with examples from works of fiction read at your leisure.

You will need

The manual on the Russian language.

Instruction manual

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Learn the definitions of simple and complex sentences. Capture this knowledge with concrete examples. The rules necessarily include options for such proposals, and you should carefully read them.

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Distinguish between simple and complex sentences by the presence of one or more grammatical foundations. Highlight it in a sentence: find the subject and the predicate. If you have identified only one grammatical basis, then this is a simple sentence. Otherwise, the parsed sentence is complex.

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There may be several grammatical foundations in such sentences. Most often, these are simple sentences, interconnected by meaning, and the first of them has no intonation completeness. Simple constructions as part of a complex sentence are separated by commas or unions. In the absence of connecting unions, the proposal is complex union-free.

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Distinguish a simple sentence from a complex sentence by parsing it. Mark the main and secondary members, pay special attention to homogeneous subjects and predicates. If during the analysis you found out that they are present in the sentence, and not the second basis, then boldly assert that you have a simple sentence. Most often, homogeneous subject and predicate unions “and”, “a”, “but” are connected.

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Learn punctuation rules in simple sentences with homogeneous members. Pay close attention to the unions "and", "a", "but." Knowing these rules, you can easily distinguish the homogeneous members of a simple sentence from the components of a complex.

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Be mindful of offers containing connecting unions. To accurately distinguish the union of "and" in simple and complex sentences, practice by analyzing the composition of simple sentences with homogeneous members.

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Read more fiction, paying attention to such suggestions. Practice as often as possible.

Useful advice

If the proposal is divided in meaning into two or more completed parts, then it is complex.