Transforming Simple Sentences into Complex
Sentences:
Converting Simple Sentences into Complex Sentences can be done easily.
And this can be done by simply expanding a word or a phrase into a
clause. Moreover, we can do the same thing when we want to change the
Complex Sentences into Simple Sentences. And this can be done by
eliminating a clause into a word or a phrase.
Few examples are given below to understand the concept and
conventional rules of transforming between Simple Sentence and Complex
Sentences:-
Rule: 1:
“Present participle” in a simple sentence, to convert into complex
sentences by adding “since/as/when” at the first half of the sentence.
•Simple Sentence: Closing the door, I went back to school.
•Complex Sentence: When I closed the door, I went back to school.
Rule: 2
“Being/ Verb+ing” in a simple sentence, to convert into a complex
sentence by adding “as/when/since” at the first half of the sentence.
•Simple Sentence: After winning a beauty contest she cried.
•Complex Sentence: As she won the beauty contest, she cried.
Rule: 3
“Too…to” in a simple sentence, to convert into a complex sentence by
adding “so…that (negative)”.
•Simple Sentence: He is too weak to carry the box.
•Complex Sentence: He is so weak that he cannot carry the box.
Rule: 4
“To” in the simple sentence, to convert into a complex sentence by
adding “so that” in the sentence.
•Simple sentence: We eat to live.
•Complex Sentence: We eat so that we can live.
Rule: 5
In the simple sentence “in spite of/ despite”, to convert into the
complex sentence by adding “though/ although” in the sentence.
•Simple Sentence: In spite of being rich, she is hard working.
•Complex Sentence: Though she is rich, she is hard working.
Rule: 6
“Because of” in the simple sentence, to convert it to the complex
sentence by adding “since” at the beginning of the sentence.
•Simple Sentence: Because of his illness, he could not join the
meeting.
•Complex Sentence: Since he was ill, he could not join the meeting.
Rule: 7
