Simple Complex Compound
Simple: Principal Clause + Phrase
Example: Without reading attentively, you will not pass.
Complex: Sub-ordinate Clause + Principal Clause
Conjunctions: Since, as, because, so that, that, though, although, if, unless, when, while, where, who, why, what, which, how etc.
Example: If you do not read attentively, you will not pass.
Compound: Principal Clause + Principal Clause
Conjunctions: and, but, so, for, nor, or, yet etc.
Example: Read attentively or you will not pass.
| Simple | Complex | Compound |
| Phrase | Sub-ordinate Clause | 1st Clause |
| SL | Simple | Complex | Compound |
| 1 | Because of____ | Since/As/ Because | And |
| 2 | In spite of/Despite__ | Though / although | But |
| 3 | Without | If / Unless | Or |
| 4 | By | If | And |
| 5 | To + verb | So that / That | And |
| 6 | In, at, During, at the age of, at the time of, before, after | When / While | And |
| 7 | Others | —– | And |
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