Sentence structures

If you can't feel your fingers, you need to come inside and sit by the fire.

• compound
• complex

This kind of sentence contains two independent clauses and a dependent clause. 

• Simple
• Compound 
• Complex
• Compound-Complex

She dropped the plate, and her food tumbled down to the floor.

• Complex
• Not Complex

Which answer best describes the red text below?

As I answered the questions, I felt confident about my score, but I should still study tonight anyway.

• compound sentence

• complex sentence

• compound-complex sentence

• predicate sentence

What is the best way to combine these sentences?
The winds dispersed.
The rain slackened to a drizzle and a mist.
The clouds fell apart.
The sun shone through.

• The winds dispersed, the rain slackened to a drizzle and a mist, the clouds fell apart, and the sun shone through.
• After the winds dispersed and the rain slackened to a drizzle and a mist, the clouds fell apart, and the sun shone through.
• The winds dispersed, and the rain slackened to a drizzle.  The clouds fell apart and sun shone through.

I’m not sure how I failed, for I studied.
What kind of sentence is this?

• Simple
• Compound
• Complex
• Compound-Complex

While I was doing my homework, my father cooked the dinner and my mother was asleep in front of the television.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-complex

What is the BEST way to combine these sentences?

The creepy monster growled loudly. He took one step towards me. He stared at me with his beady red eyes.

• The creepy monster growled loudly, took one step towards me, and stared at me with his beady red eyes.

• The creepy monster growled loudly and took one step towards me and stared at me with his beady red eyes.

• The creepy monster growled loudly, took one step towards me, stared at me with his beady red eyes.

• The creepy monster growled loudly, took one step towards me, or stared at me with his beady red eyes.

The platypus has venom-producing glands, which are rare among mammals, but its venom is not generally lethal to humans.

• simple

• compound

• complex

• compound-complex

Match the following

• in public

• The journey home took 26 hours so you can imagine how we felt when we arrived home

• at last

• He still very nervous when he has to speak

• in a whisper

• I don't need any help. I'll manage

• in his pyjamas

• We all laughed when he came to school

• on my own

• Because she didn't want anyone else to hear she spoke to him