Sentence Types Form D

Identify the sentence type:

A compound sentence has two independent clauses and at least one coordinating conjunction.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Identify the sentence type:

A simple sentence may use words like "and" or "or," but it never can have more than one independent clause.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Identify the sentence type:

A compound-complex sentence must have two independent clauses, and it will use a coordinating conjunction, while the last requirement is either a dependent clause or an adjective clause that describes a noun.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Identify the sentence type:

A complex sentence can be one independent clause with one adjective clause which describes a noun.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Identify the sentence type:

Some complex sentences use an adjective clause, but others use a dependent clause with a subordinating conjunction.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Identify the sentence type:

Researchers with the aforementioned report found that "40% of all prisoners" reported psychological trauma (Smith).

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Identify the sentence type:

Despite the Friday due date, Dustin continued to procrastinate on revising his research question."

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Identify the sentence type:

While the perils & hazards of school stress are real, few students had researched the lasting consequences of unrealistic expectations due to stress, and so they just assumed that's what life would be like.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Identify the sentence type:

"My fellow Americans: Four years ago, we launched a great national effort to rebuild our country, to renew its spirit, and to restore the allegiance of this government to its citizens."

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Identify the sentence type:

"We extend our best wishes, and we also want them to have luck—"

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex