4.1 Compound Sentences

At the beginning of this blog we learned about the structure of sentences, how sentences are made up of clauses, and the way they can be classified, depending on the type of clauses they contain.

Now we'll take a more thorough look into the structure of compound sentences, which is one of the four basic sentence structures. 

Compound sentences are sentences made up of at least two independent clauses and can be formed by using a coordinating conjunction (for, and, nor,but, or, yet, so) to join the main clauses.

Coordinating conjunctions are used when both clauses are equally important, or from the same grammatical category.

independent clause + coordinating conjunction + independent clause

I had a baby and I gave it away

She was drunk and she got other girls drunk.

                                         



           independent clause + coordinating conjunction + independent clause
                                    You go by many names but I know who you are

                                       

The city is flat and ugly and the air is brown but I love the vibrations.

They may also be joind by either using a using a semicolon (;) with or without a conjunctive adverb, or by using a colon (:), though this is less common.




Source: http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/compoundsent.htm