LESSON 2 - SIMPLE AND COMPOUND SENTENCES ( TO SEQUENCE EVENTS)

  A. Can you help organize the following sentences according to their structures? Read the sentences. If the sentence is simple, write its number under the column of simple sentences. If it can be considered as a compound sentence, write its number under compound sentences.

1. Mrs. Roque reminds all of her daughters to use social media responsibly.

2. Carla actively joins chat rooms and Rica maintains a personal blog.

3. Facebook and Instagram are two social media applications that the sisters use.

4. They both spend time using the Internet yet they use it only during their free time.

5. The Internet is such a powerful communication tool so Mrs. Roque monitors her children.

6. Rica maintains her blog for she wants her followers updated.

7. The sisters use social media properly so they never experience any problems.

8. Rica and Carla never post any unnecessary comments and pictures in their accounts.

9. They never give out their information so they remain safe from account intruders.

10. Carla and Rica show respect to other users for they also want to be respected.

   When we speak and write, we want our readers and listeners to understand our ideas thoroughly and completely. We

also target for our sentences to be interesting.

Without us knowing it, we use different structures or forms of sentences to let the details of our sentences flows smoothly. These different sentence structures make our ideas more interesting and more understandable.

 Below is a blog entry of Nathan who visited Palawan last summer.

 Were you able to know about Nathan’s experiences in Palawan through his blog? What do you think was Nathan’s reason for writing this?

Notice that Nathan used simple and compound sentences in sharing the events of his visit in Palawan. What do you think will happen if Nathan just

chose to use one sentence structure instead of having a variation?

Variation in our sentences makes our ideas more interesting and more understandable. This will also make your readers and listeners hooked especially when you tell stories or share your own experiences.

 Notice how variation in the sentence structures made the blogs interesting, readable, and understandable.

In the previous blogs that share events or experiences of their writers, both simple and compound sentences were used.