SENTENCE STRUCTURE - FROM SIMPLE TO COMPLEX
| SIMPLE | subject, verb, capital, full stop | He went outside |
| COMPOUND | two simple sentences combined with a conjunction ( eg "and") | He went outside and noted that it was considerably darker |
| COMPLEX | contain more than one clause ( a principal one, which is what is needed to make a simple sentence, and subordinate ones. IN this example , the principal clause is highlighted and the subordinate clause is in italics) | Having suffered through a story of a prospector who becomes immune to atomic radiation and tracks down Communist Spies, he went outside and noted that it was considerable darker. |