ABSTRACT
Common Core Language Standard 7.1 calls for students to “Choose among simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal differing relationships among ideas” as part of a more general statement that students need to “Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking” (Common Core State Standards, 2010). Let us begin our discussion of this standard by first exploring what simple, compound, complex, and compoundcomplex sentences are.
