Sentence Structure: Relationships

We had this little activity yesterday, about sentence structures. We constructed sentences using a diagram like this:

Photo by: Joy Anne del Rosario

See her blog at numberedinfinities.blogspot.com

Our teacher asked us some of my classmates to write a story and this was the outcome.

Princess is a single girl. She met a Jack Frostie girl, Maysa and they fangirled together. When Princess had a relationship with Niall, she had no time for Maysa. But when Maysa met a guy named Derfla and they became more than friends and the four of them lived happily ever after.

We can compare the relationships in the drawing to the sentence structures.

First, for simple sentences, there is only one subject and one predicate. In the first sentence of the strory, Princess is the subject and a single girl is the predicate. You can also notice that this sentence has only one independent clause.

Second, for compound sentences, there are two or more independent clauses (as the legend at the picture says). Here is an example based from the strory, She met a Jack Frostie girl, Maysa and they fangirled together. The underlined clauses in the sentence are independent clauses because they can stand on their selves. 

Third, for complex sentences, as the drawing says (based on the legend) there is only one independent and one dependent clauses. When Princess had a relationship with Niall, she had no time for Maysa: the underlined clause is the independent and the clause that is not underlined is the dependent clause.

Last, for compound complex sentences, there are two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. Here is an example from the story, again. But when Maysa met a guy named Derfla and they became more than friends and the four of them lived happily ever after. The underlined clauses are independent clauses and the clause that is not underlined is the dependent clause.

I also came up with a story about the drawing but it's a bit the same with the class' constructed story. Here it goes.

Winter is a new girl in town. She met Spring and they became great friends. When Winter met a guy named Autumn, Spring became jealous of him. But when Winter realizes that, she introduced Spring to Autumn and the three of them were always together.