{"id":74994,"date":"2021-02-20T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T09:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=74994"},"modified":"2021-08-14T14:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T14:14:04","slug":"transformation-of-a-simple-sentence-into-a-compound-sentence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/transformation-of-a-simple-sentence-into-a-compound-sentence-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformation of a Simple Sentence into a Compound Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/simple-sentence.htm\">simple sentence<\/a> consists of just one clause. That means it has just one subject and one finite verb. A <a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/compound-sentence.htm\">compound sentence<\/a> consists of two or more co-ordinate clauses. Coordinate clauses are clauses of the same rank. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can transform a simple sentence into a compound sentence by expanding a word or phrase into a co-ordinate clause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Study the examples given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Running fast, I caught up with him. (Simple sentence)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we expand the participial phrase into a clause and connect it to the other clause with a <a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/grammar\/coordinating-conjunctions.htm\">coordinating conjunction<\/a>, we can convert this simple sentence into a compound sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ran fast <strong>and<\/strong> caught up with him. (Compound sentence)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More examples are given below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Standing on tip-toe, he reached for the apple. (Simple sentence)<\/li><li>He stood on tip-toe and reached for the apple. (Compound sentence)<\/li><li>Being rich, she helps everybody. (Simple sentence)<\/li><li>She is rich, so she helps everybody. (Compound sentence)<\/li><li>Deceived by his friends, he gave up hope. (Simple sentence)<\/li><li>He was deceived by his friends and gave up hope. (Compound sentence)<\/li><li>Besides being intelligent, she is hardworking. (Simple sentence)<\/li><li>She is not only intelligent but also hardworking. (Compound)<\/li><li>Despite working hard, we couldn&#8217;t finish the project on time. (Simple sentence)<\/li><li>We worked hard, but we couldn&#8217;t finish the project on time. (Compound sentence)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple sentence consists of just one clause. That means it has just one subject and one finite verb. A compound sentence consists of two or more co-ordinate clauses. Coordinate clauses are clauses of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[3097,27],"class_list":["post-74994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-simple-sentence-to-compound-sentence","tag-transformation-of-sentences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74994"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75256,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74994\/revisions\/75256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}