Sentence Types

Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

This old man played one and he played knick-knack on my drum.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

London Bridge is falling down.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

She'll be coming around the mountian when she comes.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Take me out to the ball game or take me out to the crowd.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Old King Cole was a merry old soul.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

I'm home on the range where the deer and the antelope play.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Yankee Doodle went to town riding on a pony; when he stuck a feather in his hat, he called it macaroni.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow; it followed her to school one day, which was against the rules.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex