Sentence Complexity and Variety

Which of the following is a correctly punctuated complex sentence?

• After, I got home from school, I walked the dog, put away laundry, and finished my homework.
• After I got home from school, I walked the dog, put away laundry, and finished my homework.
• After I got home from school I walked the dog, put away laundry, and finished my homework.

What type of sentence is this? After I got home from school, I walked the dog, put away laundry, and finished my homework.

• Compound
• Simple
• Complex
• Compound-Complex

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.

Which of the following is a correctly punctuated sentence?

• As, for Jeff Eaton, he was alive when emergency workers arrived at the MegaRamp, but his injuries were grave. 
• As for Jeff Eaton, he was alive when emergency workers arrived at the MegaRamp but his injuries were grave. 
• As for Jeff Eaton, he was alive when emergency workers arrived at the MegaRamp, but his injuries were grave. 

Which of the following is correctly punctuated?

• The trail ahead was steep but that wasn't why I was dragging my feet.
• The trail ahead was steep but, that wasn't why I was dragging my feet.
• The trail ahead was steep, but that wasn't why I was dragging my feet.

What is the best way to combine these sentences?
The girl was little.
She pressed her nose against the window.
The window was icy.
She giggled with delight.
She had never seen snow before.

• The girl was little as she pressed her nose against the icy window, and giggled with delight because she had never seen snow before.
• The little girl pressed her nose against the icy window and giggled with delight because she had never seen snow before.
• Because the little girl pressed her nose against the icy window, she giggled with delight at the never-before seen snow.
• Because, the little girl pressed her nose against the icy window, she giggled with delight at the never-before seen snow.

Which of the following is the best way to punctuate this sentence?

• I was tired because I worked all day.
• I was tired, because I worked all day.

A simple sentence or independent clause will have a subject, verb, and a complete thought.

• True
• False

The complex sentence is made up of a dependent and independent clause.

• True
• False

A compound sentence is characterized by two independent clauses being joined together.

• True
• False