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| Types | Subtypes | Exemplar sentences |
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| Compound sentences |
Cause-effect sentences connected with “and” | Cause-effect:
(1) This was the first time I made an international call, and my heart was beating fast.
(2) The filter is much more efficient than the primary filter and it removes all remaining solid particles from the fuel. |
Effect-cause:
(3) The crops had failed, and there had not been any rain for months.
(4) Aluminum is used as engineering material for planes and spaceships and it is light and tough. |
| Cause-effect sentences without connectives | Effect-cause:
(5) My heart sank. Some of them did not weigh more than 135 pounds, and the others looked too young to be in trouble.
(6) …but the Voyager’s captain and three crewmen had stayed in board. They had hoped the storm would die out and they could save the ship. |
Cause-effect:
(7) The red distress flare shot up from the sinking ship, the Voyager. Everyman aboard our Coast Guard cutter knew that time had run out. |
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| Relative clauses | SV, SVO, SVC, SVOC, SVOO, SVA, SVOA | (8) To make an atom we have to use uranium, in which the atoms are available for fission.
(9) We know that a cat, whose eyes can take in more rays of light than our eyes, can see clearly in the night. |
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| If clauses | | (10) This system of subsidies must be maintained if the farmer will suffer considerable losses if it is abolished.
(11) If the water will rise above this level, we must warn everybody in the neighborhood. |
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| That clauses | | (12) The act was even the bolder that he stood utterly alone.
(13) The crying was all the more racking that she was not hysterical but hopeless. |
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| SVO-SVOC | | (14) Her falling ill spoiled everything.
(15) Timidity and shamefacedness caused her to stand back and looked indifferently away. |
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