Exploring Sentence Structures: Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex

What is a sentence?

• A set of words that contains a subject and a verb but is not complete in itself.

• A group of words that contains a subject and a verb.

• A set of words that is complete in itself and generally contains a subject and a main verb.

• A group of words that provides extra information about a noun.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1F

Which type of clause makes sense on its own as a sentence?

• Dependent clause

• Independent clause

• Relative clause

• Subordinate clause

Tags

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

What does a simple sentence contain?

• One independent clause

• Two dependent clauses

• One dependent clause

• Two independent clauses

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

Which of the following is an example of a simple sentence?

• She brushes her teeth in the morning, so her teeth are nice and clean.

• She brushes her teeth in the morning.

• I woke up in the morning and I brushed my teeth even though everyone else was sleeping.

• The baby laughed because the cartoon was funny.

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1J

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

What do compound sentences contain?

• Two dependent clauses linked by a subordinating conjunction

• One independent clause and one dependent clause

• Two independent clauses linked by a coordinating conjunction

• One independent clause and one relative clause

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

Which coordinating conjunction can be used in a compound sentence?

• And

• Although

• Because

• Which

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.4.2C

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

What do complex sentences contain?

• Two dependent clauses

• One dependent clause and one relative clause

• One independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses

• Two independent clauses

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

Which of the following is a subordinating conjunction?

• Because

• Or

• But

• And

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1A

CCSS.L.5.1E

What do compound-complex sentences contain?

• Two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses

• One independent clause and one dependent clause

• Two dependent clauses and one independent clause

• Two independent clauses and no dependent clauses

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B

Which of the following is an example of a compound-complex sentence?

• I woke up in the morning and I brushed my teeth even though everyone else was sleeping.

• She brushes her teeth in the morning, so her teeth are nice and clean.

• The baby laughed because the cartoon was funny.

• She brushes her teeth in the morning.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.7.1B