Sentence Structure Review

Label the following sentence:

Without books, life would be an incredible bore.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Label the following sentence:

If you can tell me what you want to eat, I can fix you dinner.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Label the following sentence:

One arrow is easily broken, but you can't break a bundle of ten.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Label the following sentence:

Joy enters like a needle and spreads like an oak.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Label the following sentence:

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Label the following sentence:

We are born brave, trusting, and greedy; most of us have remained greedy.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Label the following sentence:

Frank won a Grammy award for writing that song, but he broke the trophy when he accidentally dropped it.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Label the following sentence:

Even though Steven wrote the music for that song, I wrote the lyrics after a difficult break-up.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Label the following sentence:

Two garden gnomes and four pink flamingos decorate our next-door neighbor's front lawn.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex

Label the following sentence:

Because the day was beautiful, we went to the skate park, but we accidentally left our boards at home.

• Simple

• Compound

• Complex

• Compound-Complex