Types of Sentences found in Mary La Chapelle's "Superstitions"

Front

Type of Sentence: Frances slept in her clothes.

Back

Simple

Front

Type of Sentence: Frances turned from the window and looked around the squareness of her room.

Back

Simple

Front

Type of Sentence: As she meandered into wakefulness, she found comfort in familiar clothing.

Back

Complex

Front

Type of Sentence: Then he did stop, stopped hopping; he stopped shaking while his eyes ceased to dance.

Back

Compound-Complex

Front

Type of Sentence: Their mother worried, and she let Frances know it was the daughter's job to worry when the mother was not around.

Back

Compound-Complex

Front

Type of Sentence: As he stared her down, Frances resisted.

Back

Complex

Front

Type of Sentence: She knew immediately, by looking at him, that he was already playing.

Back

Complex

Front

Type of Sentence: She wanted to protest and call him silly.

Back

Simple

Front

Type of Sentence: Frances leaned her elbows on the sewing table and cradled her forehead in her hands.

Back

Simple

Front

Type of Sentence: She couldn't sleep with the light shining in her eyes, but she was afraid to sleep in the dark, too.

Back

Compound