Sentence Types with The Outsiders: Simple, Compound, and Complex

Which formula(s) best represents a SIMPLE sentence?

• Independent Clause

• Independent Clause, FANBOYS Independent Clause. OR Independent Clause; Independent Clause.

• Dependent Clause, Independent Clause. OR Independent Clause Dependent Clause.

Which sentence is a SIMPLE sentence?

• When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home.

• I wish they were more gray, because I hate most guys that have green eyes, but I have to be content with what I have.

• My hair is longer than a lot of boys wear theirs, squared off in back and long at the front and sides, but I am a greaser and most of my neighborhood rarely bothers to get a haircut.

• I look better with long hair.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which sentence is a SIMPLE sentence?

• When I see a movie with someone, it's kind of uncomfortable, like having someone read your book over your shoulder.

• I'm different that way.

• I mean, my second oldest brother, Soda, who is sixteen-going-on-seventeen, never cracks a book at all, and my oldest brother, Darrel, who we call Darry, works too long and hard to be interested in a story or drawing a picture, so I'm not like them.

• Soda tries to understand, at least, which is more than Darry does.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which sentence is a SIMPLE sentence?

• We get jumped by the Socs.

• I'm not sure how you spell it, but it's the abbreviation for the Socials, the jet set, the West-side rich kids.

• It's like the term "greaser", which is used to class all us boys on the East Side.

• Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in a while.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which sentence is a SIMPLE sentence?

• We're poorer than the Socs and the middle class.

• Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave.

• So Soda and I stay out of trouble as much as we can, and we're careful not to get caught when we can't.

• I'm not saying that either Socs or greasers are better; that's just the way things are.

Which formula(s) best represents a COMPOUND sentence?

• Independent Clause

• Independent Clause, FANBOYS Independent Clause. OR Independent Clause; Independent Clause.

• Dependent Clause, Independent Clause. OR Independent Clause Dependent Clause.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which sentence is a COMPOUND sentence?

• I'm not saying that either Socs or greasers are better; that's just the way things are.

• I could have waited to go to the movies until Darry or Sodapop got off work.

• They would have gone with me, or driven me there, or walked along, although Soda just can't sit still long enough to enjoy a movie and they bore Darry to death.

• Darry thinks his life is enough without inspecting other people's.

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which sentence is a COMPOUND sentence?

• Or I could have gotten one of the gang to come along, one of the four boys Darry and Soda and I have grown up with and consider family.

• Greasers are almost like hoods; we steal things and drive old souped-up cars and hold up gas stations and have a gang fight once in a while.

• If I had thought about it, I could have called Darry and he would have come by on his way home and picked me up...

• I about decided I didn't like it so much, though, when I spotted that red Corvair trailing me.

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which sentence is a COMPOUND sentence?

• I had never been jumped, but I had seen Johnny after four Socs got hold of him.

• Johnny was scared of his own shadow after that.

• Johnny was sixteen then.

• I knew it wasn't any use though--the fast walking, I mean--even before the Corvair pulled up beside me and five Socs got out.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which sentence is a COMPOUND sentence?

• I could feel my palms getting clammy and the perspiration running down my back.

• I get like that when I'm real scared.

• I glanced around for a pop bottle or a stick or something, but there was nothing.

• So I stood there like a bump on a log while they surrounded me.

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A