Day 97: Limit compound sentences to two independent clauses.

A compound sentence is made up of two or more independent clauses. Consider this sentence.

“The personnel director wrote his report, and I was admonished for selling company property.”

This sentence contains two independent clauses, each of which could be a complete sentence. The first is “The personnel director wrote his report.” The second independent clause is “I was admonished for selling company property.”

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A sentence expresses a complete thought. A compound sentence expresses two or more thoughts. If you have too many thoughts in on sentence, the sentence will be too wordy, and the reader will have difficulty interpreting what he or she should know. Overall, the writing will be amateurish.

For this reason, we recommend that you don’t have more than two independent clauses per sentence. If you have more to say, use additive words or other strategies to discuss them.