Sentence Structure
Quiz by Taralyn Trumbull
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- Q1
Is the following sentence COMPOUND: I don’t want to eat. I don’t want to drink.
No
Yes
20s - Q2
Is the following sentence COMPLEX: She loved eating ice cream.
Yes
No
20s - Q3
Is the following sentence COMPOUND-COMPLEX: I like to play football, but baseball is more exciting.
Yes
No
20s - Q4
What is missing from the following simple sentence: I love my pets.
Nothing
Subject
Predicate
20s - Q5
What sentence type is the following sentence: Mary was out of milk, so she went to the store.
Compound-Complex
Simple
Complex
Compound
30s - Q6
What sentence type is the following sentence: Because Alex and Michael arrived at the bus station before noon, I did not see them.
Compound
Simple
Complex
Compound-Complex
30s - Q7
What sentence type is the following sentence: Jean had a headache after the party was over, so Paul cleaned up the house.
Simple
Compound
Compound-Complex
Complex
30s - Q8
What sentence type is the following sentence: Does he play tennis?
Complex
Compound-Complex
Compound
Simple
30s - Q9
Is the following sentence COMPOUND: They wanted to go to Paris, but I wanted to go to London.
Yes
No
20s - Q10
Is the following sentence COMPLEX: The human brain never stops working until you stand up to speak in public.
Yes
No
20s - Q11
Is the following sentence COMPOUND-COMPLEX: I like baseball.
No
Yes
20s - Q12
Is the following sentence COMPOUND: Michael did not like to read. She was not very good at it.
Yes
No
20s - Q13
What sentence type is the following sentence: When he handed in his homework, he forgot to hand in the last page.
Complex
Compound
Compound-Complex
Simple
30s - Q14
What sentence type is the following sentence: When we went trick or treating, it had started raining, and we had to run to the car.
Compound
Compound-Complex
Complex
Simple
30s - Q15
What is missing from this simple sentence: My brother’s dog
Predicate
Subject
20s