Practice Exercises Each one of you is going to read the sentence on each practice slide and select the correct sentence type: Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex. Hint: Count how many independent and dependent clauses, and use the flow chart we filled in yesterday.
Practice Exercises Simple The clown frightened the little girl.
Practice Exercises Complex After Mary added up all the sales, she discovered that the lemonade stand was 32 cents short.
Practice Exercises Compound The clown frightened the little girl, and she ran off screaming.
Practice Exercises Simple The Freedom Riders departed on May 4, 1961.
Practice Exercises Compound The Freedom Riders departed on May4, 1961, and they were determined to travel through many southern states.
Practice Exercises Simple After finishing the first assignment, you may take a break.
Practice Exercises Complex Because I was too busy to eat lunch, I was starving when I got home.
Practice Exercises Simple There are no available seats.
Practice Exercises Compound-Complex Catch-22 is widely regarded as Joseph Heller’s best novel, and because Heller served in World War II, which the novel Satirizes, the zany but savage Wit of the novel packs an Extra punch.
Any Questions?