Independent clause makes sense on its own without another clause(part)

Independent clause – makes sense on its own without another clause(part)
A complete thought (a simple sentence)

I play football. Yellow-subject, green-predicate

Chunk(n,c)
Parts of speech nouns, adjs, advs, verbs, prepositions, pronouns, (coordinating; subordinating) conjunctions, interjections, determiners(both, neither, a, an, the)
auxiliary verbs
I play football.
I have been trying to improve my English.
I have been trying to improve my English.
Dependent (subordinate) clause– does not make sense on its own without independent clause(part)
“because I was tired”
“although the task was fairly easy”

Compound sentences

I did my best to pass my finals, but I failed it anyway.
The exam has been postponed to another day so we are not taking it today.
It is imperative that children are taught to be disciplined from a young age, and they should also be allowed to exercise a certain level of freedom.

Sentence types:

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  Simple sentence
  
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  Compound sentence (with coordinating conjunctions)
  
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  Complex sentence (with subordinating conjunctions)
  
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  Compound-complex sentence
  
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  Conditionals
  
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  Inversions
  

Compound sentence – it is a sentence that is made up of two independent clauses and joined together with a coordinating conjunction.

Complex sentence – it is a sentence that is made up of one dependent and one independent clause and joined with a subordinating conjunction.
Punctuation rule: If a complex starts with a dependent clause, it is followed with a comma to separate it from the independent clause. If it is the other way around, comma is optional.
Both, teachers and students, planned to pay a visit to Amirsoy resort but after few days they decided cancel it.
Many children play computer games when in fact other prefer sports.
He aced the test with only few hours of preparation while it took me a several months.
When I was teaching students English few years ago, he was involved in business.
Compound-complex sentence:
She likes to sleep in but she can get up early if she has to go to work.

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  When I grow up, I want to be a ballerina, and my mom is proud of me.
  
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  I will get to watch television, but first, I have to clean up the dishes after we finish eating.
  
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  We won the game, but my uniform was muddy because it rained the entire time.
  

I fell asleep as soon as I got home because I was exhausted by that time, but I still managed to wake up early in the morni ng.

We were travelling to Sydney while my sister was at home because she was ill.