Smooth-Dribbling Soccer Cleats 2 Left fullback Suzie Martinez steals the ball from the other team in the championship game of the season. Rival player Jen Smith tries to recover the ball, but she slips on the sloppy, wet field. Suzie glides easily around her fallen opponent and kicks the
ball toward the goal. The other team's defensive player backpedals in an attempt to block Suzie's kick, but falls in front of the
goal. Suzie's teammate, Becky Fuller, is ready and waiting when the ball comes to her. Becky shifts her weight and throws herself
into a kick, scoring the winning goal.
According to the passage, who kicks the winning goal in the championship soccer game?

A)
Jen Smith
B)
Tommy Strom
Becky Fuller
D)
Suzie Martinez

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.

how to separate a subordinate clause from the main clause