What I Learned Today

Today in ESL class, I learned what compound, complex and run-on sentences are. The compound sentences are a sentence that more than one sentence put together with a joining word and usually two sentences are put together. For example, 'I studied Korean, and my friend studied English.' In this sentence, there are two subjects and predicates, so it is a compound sentence. The complex sentences are a sentence that an independent clause and a dependent clause joined together. 'I was playing the piano, but later, I stopped doing that.' This sentence an example of complex sentence. A sentence that is two or more sentences written as one sentence incorrectly are called run-on sentence. They go past the point where they should stop and are usually too long. For example, 'I did my homework, studied science, played drum but my sister wanted me to stop playing drum.' This sentence is too long and there are also some mistakes so it is a run-on sentence. I can fix this to 'I did my homework, studied science, and played drum. But my sister wanted me to stop playing drum.'