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A Humbug's Grammar

Exercises - Identifying Sentence Types

Identifying Subjects and Verbs
Identifying Phrases and Clauses

Identifying Prepositional Phrases

Identifying Infinitives

Identifying Participles and Gerunds

Identifying Independent and Dependent (Subordinate) Clauses

Identifying Compound-Complex Sentences and Complex Sentences

Identifying Sentence Types II

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Identifying Sentence Types

Identify the following as simple, compound, or complex. Then identify the simple subjects and verbs of each clause.

S = Simple
CD = Compound
CX = Complex

  1. The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honor of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's buff.
  2. Marley's face was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.
  3. It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly spectacles turned up upon its ghostly forehead.
  4. The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot-air.
  5. Though the eyes were wide open, they were perfectly motionless.
  6. That, and its livid color, made it horrible; but its horror seemed to be in spite of the face and beyond its control, rather than a part of its own expression.
  7. He did pause, with a moment's irresolution, before he shut the door.
  8. He did look cautiously behind it first, as if he half expected to be terrified with the sight of Marley's pigtail sticking out into the hall.

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Introduction  | Subjects | Verbs | Subject, Predicate | Objects | Phrases | Clauses
The Simple Sentence | The Compound Sentence | The Complex Sentence
The Compound-Complex Sentence | Sentence types in a paragraph
Exercises

 

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Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain 3/27/03