English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 8

ELA21.8.16c

Explain how using simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex statements and questions signals differing relationships among ideas in a text.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

  • Methods to identify the usage of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex statements and questions in text.

Skills

  • Identify various types of statements and questions to determine the relationship of ideas in a text.
  • Explain how using various types of statements of questions can indicate differing relationships among ideas in text.

Understanding

  • Different types of statements and questions are used in writing to describe relationships among ideas.

Vocabulary

  • Simple statements and questions
  • Compound statements and questions
  • Complex statements and questions
  • Compound-complex statements and questions
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