Hi, My daughter is currently working on compound/complex/compound-complex sentences. She is struggling to keep them straight in her mind. We are using R&S grammar's 8th grade level. If she doesn't understand them she can't diagram them so we could use some help. Is there a simpler way to break them down? I wonder if she isn't getting the whole clause thing. I dunno--any help is appreciated.
If you can get the book from Scholastic Checking Your Grammar it would be very helpful to have a different teaching prospective. Check your library. Is this what you are looking for? Here is an online source for help:http://www.kidinfo.com/Language_Arts/Grammar_Helper.html Looking at the Grammar Slammer-then going to the grammar glossary, you may have to take it a step at a time and make sure she understands what each term is. Have her write them out. I do better with a book in front of me then going back and forth between web pages. Wishing you and your dd success at this!
Type in studio4learning then dot tv on the web. Click on the English icon. Then, Click on English Grammer. Under English Grammer go down to sentences and click. Forward the video to Section C Compound and Complex Sentences. Hope this helps!
One thing I would do is to have the student match subjects and verbs. The dog fell in the water but the cat avoided the mess. Here the verb "fell" corresponds to "dog". The verb "avoided" corresponds to "cat". The dog fell into the water but managed to avoid the mud. In this sentence, "fell" corresponds to "dog" and "managed" also corresponds to "dog". So the first sentence is compound. The second is simple (with a cd predicate)
