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Compound Sentence
A compound sentence is one that contains at least two independent clauses linked together by a comma,
semicolon, or conjunction. An independent clause contains both a subject and verb and constitutes a
complete notion. For example:

• Katniss in ‘The Hunger Games’ survived in the forest as she was an excellent archer.
• She wants to lose weight, yet she eats chocolates daily.
• He recently lost his mother, so he is feeling sad.

Types of Objects
The object in a sentence can be either direct or indirect. Let us understand both:

Direct object • a noun or pronoun receiving the action
• generally preceded by the verb
• does not depend on the indirect object
Indirect Object • a noun/pronoun that receives the direct object.
• generally preceded by prepositions
• depends on the direct object

Let us understand using an example:
My cousin brought us freshly-picked flowers.

Indirect object Direct object

Some more examples are:

Sentence Direct Object Indirect Object
He gave his son a present. present son
The little boy drew his teacher a picture. picture teacher

My sister bought me some chocolates. chocolates me
Types of Sentences—Classification II
Active and Passive Sentences
We use both active and passive sentences while speaking. How to distinguish between the two?

Active Sentence Passive Sentence

Subject + verb + object Object + verb + subject
The subject performs the action on the object. The subject is being acted upon.
Example: The lion killed the deer. Example: The deer was killed by the lion.
Gargi sings lovely songs. Lovely songs are sung by Gargi.

Some more examples are:

Active Sentence Passive Sentence
The cat killed the pigeon. The pigeon was killed by the cat.
Where did you buy this bag from? From where was this bag bought by you?
Jai made a cake. A cake was made by Jai.

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