Identifying Sentences as Simple, Compound or Complex

• A simple sentence consists of a single independent clause.

 

Grandma goes to church alone.

 

• A compound sentence consists of two independent clauses.

 

Trina slept late, yet she made it to school on time.

 

• A complex sentence consists of an independent clause joined by one or more dependent clauses.

 

We waited for her arrival until father called us back home.