2025-02-24
5 分钟Hi, and welcome to the Espresso English podcast, where you can improve your English in just a few minutes a day.
My name is Shayna, and I'm the teacher at Espresso English.
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Let's get started with today's lesson.
Do you want an easy way to form sentences in English?
Today, I'll teach you the four essential sentence structures, simple, compound, complex, and compound complex.
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Let's start with simple sentences.
A simple sentence contains one independent clause.
That's a subject followed by a verb or verb phrase.
It expresses a single idea.
For example, I always lock the door.
My sister set the table.
We might go see a movie.
They went swimming.
So the subjects are I, my sister, we, and they.