Homework Help: Grammar

Posted by Tiffany on Monday, September 6, 2010 at 11:23pm.

(Check these please)Identify these sentences as compound, simple or run-on sentences.

5. Percy Shelley traveled in Europe and visited friends.(simple)

6. Shelley made friends with other poets; John Keats was Shelley's friend.(compound)

7. William Godwin was another friend, Shelley liked his daughter.(run-on)

9. Mary's father was a philosopher, her mother worked for women's rights.(compound)

14. Byron was one of the greatest Romantic poets students still study his work.(run-on)

19. Byron loved Greece, he traveled there. (compound)

Grammar - SraJMcGin, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 12:10am
First of all, study the difference between a simple and a compound sentence:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&p=difference+between+a+compound+or+simple+sentence

#9 is a run-on. It needs a semicolon (or a period and a capital H in Her, to be compound.

#19 is as well.

Sra
Grammar - Tiffany, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 12:14am
Thank you
Grammar - Writeacher, Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 7:56am
5. Percy Shelley traveled in Europe and visited friends.(simple) correct

6. Shelley made friends with other poets; John Keats was Shelley's friend.(compound) correct

7. William Godwin was another friend, Shelley liked his daughter.(run-on) correct

9. Mary's father was a philosopher, her mother worked for women's rights.(compound) incorrect

14. Byron was one of the greatest Romantic poets students still study his work.(run-on) correct

19. Byron loved Greece, he traveled there. (compound) incorrect

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