1. Sentence Structure

2. What do you notice?
Nick Allen had plenty of ideas, and
he knew what to do with them.
- Andrew Clements, Frindle (1998)

3. Compound Sentence =
for
Sentence
,
and
nor
but
or
yet
so
sentence
.

4. Compound Sentence Test
 Are there two complete
sentences, with subjects and verbs on
each side of the FANBOYS?
 Are a comma and one of the
FANBOYS joining the two complete
sentences?
 Does the sentence meet all the criteria?

5. What do you notice?
I think about going in my room
now, but it smells like the inside
of an old lunch bag in there.
- Gennifer Choldenko, A Capone Does My Shirts (2004)

6. What do you notice?
I could remember every detail of
the whole night, but it had the
unreal quality of a dream.
- S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders (1997)

7. What do you notice?
The dark scares us, for we don’t
know what is waiting in the dark.
- Alvin Schwartz, Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones (2001)

8. FANBOYS
Cause-effect
relationships
Cartoons by
Andrew Schroeder

9. FANBOYS
Equal
relationships
Cartoons by
Andrew Schroeder

10. FANBOYS
Negative
choice
Cartoons by
Andrew Schroeder

11. FANBOYS
Contrasting
relationships
Cartoons by
Andrew Schroeder

12. FANBOYS
Choice
Cartoons by
Andrew Schroeder

13. FANBOYS
Contrasting
relationships
Cartoons by
Andrew Schroeder

14. FANBOYS
Cause-effect
relationships
Cartoons by
Andrew Schroeder

15. Compound Sentence Test
 Are there two complete sentences,
with subjects and verbs on each side of
the FANBOYS?
 Are a comma and one of the
FANBOYS joining the two complete
sentences?
 Does the sentence meet all the criteria?

16. What do you notice?
I sat near the back with Stephen, and he
kept pestering me.
Stephen is my best friend, but I’m not sure
he’d admit it.
There was only about a block to go before
our bus stop, but I couldn’t stand
Stephen’s whining another second.
- Andrew Clements, The Report Card (2004)

17. What do you notice?
I love to eat cheese, and fish.

18. What do you notice?
He yelped in pain, and she grabbed
his wrists and pinned his arms to
the floor.
- Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (2007)

19. What do you notice?
But usually, the game we played in gym was
kickball. I liked kickball, mostly because
nobody had to take off his shirt to play it.
There were about a dozen boys on each
team, and the fielders would scatter across the
big gym. Little guys like me would try to hit
dribblers past the infield and scoot to first
base before the ball got there. Big guys could
bang the ball as far as they could and bounce
it off the far wall.
- Dan Gutman, “Let’s Go to the Videotape,”
Guys Write for Guys Read (2005)

20. True or False?
 If it has one of the FANBOYS, it must
be a compound sentence.
 If it has a comma, it must be a
compound sentence.
 Compound sentence can only contain
two simple sentences.

21. What do you notice?
It’s Friday night, and Mom is
yelling at me because I won’t eat
the chicken she cooked for dinner.
- Sarah Littman, Confessions of a Closet Catholic (2005)

22. Combining Sentences
A nervous chuckle rose up in me.
I refused to let it out.
- Nancy Osa, Cuba 15 (2003)

23. Combining Sentences
I tried calling her as soon as I got
home from school.
Her line was busy.
- Nancy Osa, Cuba 15 (2003)

24. Compound Sentence =
Sentence
;
sentence
.