1. 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.

2. Practice Exercises
Simple
The clown frightened
the little girl.

3. Practice Exercises Complex After Mary added up all the sales, she
discovered that the
lemonade stand was
32 cents short.

4. Practice Exercises Compound The clown frightened
the little girl, and she
ran off screaming.

5. Practice Exercises
Simple
The Freedom Riders
departed on May 4,
1961.

6. Practice Exercises Compound The Freedom Riders departed on May4,
1961, and they were
determined to travel
through many
southern states.

7. Practice Exercises Simple After finishing the first assignment, you
may take a break.

8. Practice Exercises Complex Because I was too busy
to eat lunch, I was starving when I got home.

9. Practice Exercises
Simple
There are no
available seats.

10. 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.

11. Any
Questions?