Rewrite the sentences to make them more interesting using different sentence forms (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex.) The car trip took forever. My dad drove so slowly.

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Meredith Horne

2 August, 18:22

Rewrite the sentences to make them more interesting using different sentence forms (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex.) The car trip took forever. My dad drove so slowly.

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Alan Wilson · Answer 1

1) The car trip took forever

2) My dad drove so slowly and the car trip took forever

3) The car trip took forever because my dad drove so slowly

4) I had a fever and the car trip took forever because my dad drove so slowly

Explanation:

A simple sentence is a sentence with one independent clause, and no dependent or subordinate clauses (1). Sentence 1 consists of one subject (the car trip) and a single predicate (took forever). On the contrary, a compound sentence joins two or more independent clauses with a coordinator such as and, for, or, but, or a semicolon (2). In sentence 2, the two independent clauses have been joined by the coordinator and.

Then, sentence 3 is a complex sentence. A complex sentence is a sentence that contains an independent clause (the car trip took forever) and two or more dependent clauses that depend on the main one to complete their meaning (because my dad drove so slowly). "Because my dad drove so slowly" is a dependent clause since it fails to stand on its own because it is not a complete sentence (it lacks either the subject or the predicate). Finally, sentence 4 is a compound-complex sentence, a combination of the last two. A compound-complex sentence is a compound sentence (I had a fever and the car trip took forever) with at least one dependent clause (because my dad drove so slowly).