Name: ________________________
Creating Complex Sentences

Directions: Write ten complex sentences.  A complex sentence is two or more clauses joined by a subordinating conjunction.

1.	Underline your subjects.
2.	Circle your predicates.

Some Subordinating Conjunctions: after, although, as, as if, because, before, even if, if, lest, now that, since, than, though, unless, until, when, whenever, while	

Example:  While the cats were sleeping, the mice came out and played.
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