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  • Hey everyone welcome back to my channel this is Dori I am a teacher of

  • English

  • and today we're going to talk about how to write

  • complex sentences as you know in your

  • writing you're asked to write complex sentences and this is really

  • important

  • for your IELTS marking. The thing is that most of

  • you try to write in a complex way but

  • this eventually comes against you because you end up making

  • too many mistakes. So, if you are not 100% sure

  • that what you're writing is correct then

  • better not to write it all better be simple than sorry right

  • however, today I'm going to show you how to write

  • complex sentences and be correct

  • at the same time first things first

  • what do we mean by saying a simple sentence

  • a simple sentence is a sentence that consists

  • of the subject the person that does something

  • and a verb for example

  • Mary the subject and "is" the verb

  • another example

  • the dog the subject and ate the verb

  • okay that's it! these are just simple

  • sentences that are made up

  • by a verb and a subject. These sentences can totally stand on their own

  • that's why we call them independent because

  • they don't need anything else! Now, a very important punctuation tip!

  • when you have two or more simple sentences together

  • you never use a comma

  • between them for example if you have

  • these three sentences

  • are simple sentences okay you can never

  • connect them with a comma: this is wrong instead

  • we use a semi-colon between them

  • Keep that in mind not only for your IELTS writing but also for your academic studies

  • Now, what is a compound sentence

  • again nothing to confuse you: a compound sentence consists

  • of two or more simple sentences

  • independent sentences together but

  • this time they are not connected with a semicolon

  • but they are connected with another linking

  • word for example

  • another example

  • These connecting

  • words that connect two simple sentences together in order to form a compound sentence

  • are called fanboys in grammar because it is very easy for you to remember

  • them

  • in this way for example if you put the word fanboys in a vertical

  • way then you have "for" "and" "nor"

  • "but" "or" "yet" and "So"

  • of course there are more linking words that you can use

  • but these are the most commonly used and it is very easy for you to remember them in

  • this way now what is a complex

  • sentence? A complex sentence consists

  • of a simple sentence again and a

  • sentence that cannot stand

  • on its own that is a dependent sentence

  • okay for example

  • as you can see in this example Mary

  • is unhappy can totally stand on its

  • own but the dependent sentence because the cake

  • is not tasty cannot stand on

  • its own it doesn't make sense it needs the simple sentence in order to make sense

  • right so in a complex sentence simple

  • and dependent sentences are connected together

  • with a linking word and usually a comma

  • These linking words are

  • there are numerous of them, so let's see another example

  • Now let's use what we've just learnt in order to make IELTS Task2

  • level examples. So we will take

  • random simple sentences together

  • these could be your notes. For example,

  • Okay now we can take these

  • simple sentences and we can make a

  • single complex sentence for example

  • So we took our random notes

  • our simple sentences and we formed

  • a single complex sentence: we connected

  • the first two sentences with the word "and" and we made a

  • compound sentence and then we used

  • connecting words and made the other two sentences dependent

  • this is very useful when you have written down ideas

  • in your notes with reasons and examples and you don't know how to connect them

  • together in a single paragraph and

  • of course in a more complex way

Hey everyone welcome back to my channel this is Dori I am a teacher of

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