Changing your habits regarding how you combine clauses can be challenging, but it is worth the effort because it can transform your writing from a simple elementary style to a more sophisticated and academic style that better fits the topics that you encounter in advanced classes. There are four types of sentences; understanding how to form all of them can add more resources to your tool box as you explore different types of writing.
There are four types of sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Each sentence is defined by the use of independent and dependent clauses, conjunctions, and subordinators.