Learning Strategies

A compound sentence is two or more independent clauses joined together with a comma and a coordinating conjunction or a semi-colon.  The senences below are examples of a compound sentence.  My mom and I wrote them.  for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so are coordinating conjunctions.  They are like glue.

There were these Minute Men, and they were American.
There were these Minute Men; they were American.