{"id":76156,"date":"2022-11-12T08:54:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T08:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=76156"},"modified":"2022-11-12T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T08:55:41","slug":"conversion-of-a-compound-sentence-to-a-simple-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/conversion-of-a-compound-sentence-to-a-simple-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversion Of A Compound Sentence To A Simple Sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/simple-sentence\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"74469\">simple sentence<\/a> has just one clause and one <a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/finite-verb\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"71739\">finite verb.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/compound-sentences\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"73763\">compound sentence <\/a>has two or more coordinate clauses of the same rank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to convert a compound sentence into a simple sentence, we have to reduce one of the coordinate clauses into a phrase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He finished his homework and went to play.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The sentence given below is a compound sentence. It has two main clauses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>He finished his homework.<\/li><li>He went to play.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When we reduce the first clause into a phrase, we get:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Having finished his homework<\/strong>, he went to play.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The sentence given above has just one independent clause \u2013 he went to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having finished his homework is not a clause because it does not have a finite verb. Having finished is an example of a perfect participle. It is a non-finite verb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Exercise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Change the compound sentences given below into simple sentences.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. We were poor and suffered great hardships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. He not only fed the poor boy but also bought him some clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. We must eat or we cannot live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. She tried her best but she could not succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Answers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. <strong>Being poor<\/strong> we suffered great hardships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.<strong> In addition to feeding the poor boy<\/strong>, he bought him some clothes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. We must eat <strong>to live<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4.<strong> Despite trying her best<\/strong>, she could not succeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A simple sentence has just one clause and one finite verb. A compound sentence has two or more coordinate clauses of the same rank. In order to convert a compound sentence into a simple&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[3564,3562,3563,27],"class_list":["post-76156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-10-worksheets","tag-compound-to-simple-sentence","tag-conversion-of-a-compound-sentence-to-a-simple-sentence","tag-conversion-of-compound-sentences-into-simple-sentences","tag-transformation-of-sentences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76156","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76158,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76156\/revisions\/76158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}