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▷ ▶ Find the Sentence Type SelectSmart.com free Education flowcharts and decision trees.
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Use this flowchart to help you decide whether a sentence is simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
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Does the sentence have more than one subject word?
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YES
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Does the sentence have a comma followed by a conjunction (FANBOYS) or a semicolon?
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YES
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Is there a trigger word in the sentence? Ex. who, which, that, because, when, if, until, before, after, although, since...
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YES
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Check to see if this sentence is a COMPOUND-COMPLEX SENTENCE. It should have TWO INDEPENDENT clauses and ONE DEPENDENT clause.
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NO
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NO
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NO
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Check to see if this sentence is a SIMPLE SENTENCE. It should have ONE INDEPENDENT clause.
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Is there a trigger word in the sentence? Ex. who, which, that, because, when, if, until, before, after, although, since...
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Check to see if this sentence is a COMPOUND SENTENCE. It should have TWO INDEPENDENT clauses.
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YES
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Check to see if this sentence is a COMPLEX SENTENCE. It should have ONE INDEPENDENT clause and ONE OR MORE DEPENDENT clauses.
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Find the Sentence Type
