Grade 3 Fall — Personal Narrative, Complex Sentences with Subordinate Clauses, and Morphology with Affixes and Roots
English · GR G3 eng.g3.f.gr.sentence_types_simple_compound_complex

Identify and produce simple, compound, and complex sentences (L.3.1.i)

Sort sentences by type using a clause-counting routine: count independent clauses (IC) and subordinate clauses (SC). SIMPLE = 1 IC. COMPOUND = 2+ IC joined by FANBOYS coordinating conjunction with comma. COMPLEX = 1 IC + 1+ SC joined by subordinating conjunction. Produce one of each type on demand.

Mastery threshold
90%
Min instances
12
Typical minutes
35
Spaced intervals (days)
1, 3, 7, 14, 30, 60
Prereqs
Successors
  • eng.g3.s.gr.compound_complex_sentences
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Common misconceptions
  • Calls every long sentence 'complex' even when it has no subordinate clause.
  • Calls a compound sentence 'complex' because it has two clauses, missing the IC-vs-SC distinction.

Exercise pool (1)

Diff Stem Type
2 Sort these 12 sentences into SIMPLE, COMPOUND, or COMPLEX columns by counting independent and subordinate clauses. (1) The dog ran. (2)... sentence type sort