Hi everybody 
I know there are 4 kinds of sentence but I’m not sure about its structure, so could you please help me about this?
Please give me an example of each one?
Jupiter
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I suppose that you mean:
Declarative: I ate a squid.
Interrogative: Did you really?
Imperative: Eat this squid.
Exclamatory: I won’t, I won’t, I won’t!
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Aha!–
Simple: I ate a squid.
Compound: I ate a squid and then I threw up.
Complex: I ate a squid that the chef had undercooked.
Compound-Complex: I ate a squid that the chef had undercooked, and then I threw up.
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Hi MM
Thanks again for your help. You didn’t give me the sructure so I try to make it up
simple: independent clause
compound: main clause + conjunction + main clause.
complex: main clause + dependent clause.
compound-complex: complex sentence + conjunction + main clause.
Are they right? If not, please help me for the correct one
Jupiter
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Oops! Sorry, I forgot to log in, Jupiter. And of course the order of the clauses makes no difference.
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Do you have to have a conjunction at the beginning of a Compound-complex sentence?
Or is that just for complex sentences?
At the beginning? ‘No’ for both.
MM where can I get a tutorial which could enumerate this briefly?
Is this a simple? “I ate a squid, throwing up.”
That is not a good sentence, James. The nonfinite clause is not logically related to the main clause.
Gkukreti, if you do a Google search on the phrases (‘simple sentence’, ‘compound s’, ‘complex s’, ‘compound-complex s’) you will find plenty of explanation and examples.
Thank you, Mr. Micawber, (I can’t help recalling a novel). But how about this one, “I ate a squid, thereby throwing up.”?
No, again, Mister. It can be the best way to use a nonfinite clause for the logic related to the main clause such as: “I ate a squid, (thereby) throwing up.” in patent English.
Are you saying you don’t care about patent English, Micawber? It does not belong to your kingdom, right?
Even documents so exalted as patents should aim at being clear and intelligible to their readers, and stick to conventional grammar and style.
The word “thereby” at least links the the participle to the main clause; but it is too formal for this type of sentence, it sounds odd. Perhaps you could write “I ate a squid, which made me throw up”.
You need to check with a patent, too, like the Answerer, Cerberus, before making comments.
What does a patent have to do with grammar anyway?
Are you saying that a patent has nothing to do with grammar?
I asked you to specify what it has to do with grammar that you consider relevant to this sentence.