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.

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

• Dependent clause

• Independent clause

• Relative clause

• Subordinate clause

What does a simple sentence contain?

• One independent clause

• Two dependent clauses

• One dependent clause

• Two independent clauses

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.

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

Which coordinating conjunction can be used in a compound sentence?

• And

• Although

• Because

• Which

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

Which of the following is a subordinating conjunction?

• Because

• Or

• But

• And

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

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.