This is a ten-page document which explains the types of English sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. Included also are numerous practice exercises, totaling 75 practice sentences. This activity may be used independently by students or as part of a teacher-taught unit on sentence types. This explanation is intended for students who have not yet done in-depth study of types of subordinate/dependent clauses, especially the use of the noun clause. Because of the more advanced nature of noun clauses, there are no practice complex sentences using noun clauses. This work will allow students, however, to begin to distinguish between independent and dependent clauses and what constitutes the four types of sentences.



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