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A Humbug's Grammar

Exercises - Identifying Sentence Types II

Identifying Subjects and Verbs
Identifying Phrases and Clauses

Identifying Prepositional Phrases

Identifying Infinitives

Identifying Participles and Gerunds

Identifying Independent and Dependent (Subordinate) Clauses

Identifying Sentence Types

Identifying Compound-Complex Sentences and Complex Sentences

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Identifying Sentence Types II

Identify the following by sentence type:

S = Simple
CD = Compound
CX = Complex
CDCX = Compound-complex

  1. Holly, mistletoe, red berries, ivy, turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, meat, pigs, sausages, oysters, pies, puddings, fruit, and punch, all vanished instantly.
  2. The poulterers' shops were still half open, and the fruiterers' were radiant in their glory.
  3. But soon the steeples called good people all, to church and chapel, and away they came, flocking through the streets in their best clothes, and with their gayest faces.
  4. She came out prematurely from behind the closet door, and ran into his arms, while the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the wash-house, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper.
  5. Bob said he didn't believe there ever was such a goose cooked.
  6. Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular, were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows.
  7. 'If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die.'
  8. Tiny Tim drank it last of all, but he didn't care twopence for it.
  9. Scrooge was the Ogre of the family.
  10. The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes.
  11. There all the children of the house were running out into the snow to meet their married sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts, and be the first to greet them.
  12. And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants.
  13. The old man, in a voice that seldom rose above the howling of the wind upon the barren waste, was singing them a Christmas song.
  14. In easy state upon this couch, there sat a jolly Giant, glorious to see who bore a glowing torch in shape not unlike Plenty's horn and held it up, high up, to shed its light on Scrooge as he came peeping round the door.

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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