Identify any simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in the following text: She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops, and an equally long apr... Identify any simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences in the following text: She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops, and an equally long apron of bleached sugar sacks with a full packet: all neat and tidy, but every time she took a step, she might have fallen over her shoe lace, which dragged from unlaced shoe. She looks straight ahead. Her eyes were blue with age. Her skin had a pattern, all her own, of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead, but a golden colour ran underneath, and the two knobs of her cheeks were illumined by a yellow burning under the dark. Under the red hair came down on her neck in the frailest of ringlets, still black, and with an odor like copper.
Understand the Problem
The question asks us to read the provided text and identify examples of simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. This involves understanding sentence structure and the use of conjunctions and clauses.
Answer
The text contains compound, simple, and compound-complex sentences. Examples of each are provided in the answer.
- Compound Sentence: "She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops, and an equally long apron of bleached sugar sacks with a full packet: all neat and tidy, but every time she took a step, she might have fallen over her shoe lace, which dragged from unlaced shoe."
- Simple Sentence: "She looks straight ahead."
- Simple Sentence: "Her eyes were blue with age."
- Compound-Complex Sentence: "Her skin had a pattern, all her own, of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead, but a golden colour ran underneath, and the two knobs of her cheeks were illumined by a yellow burning under the dark."
- Compound Sentence: "Under the red hair came down on her neck in the frailest of ringlets, still black, and with an odor like copper."
Answer for screen readers
- Compound Sentence: "She wore a dark striped dress reaching down to her shoe tops, and an equally long apron of bleached sugar sacks with a full packet: all neat and tidy, but every time she took a step, she might have fallen over her shoe lace, which dragged from unlaced shoe."
- Simple Sentence: "She looks straight ahead."
- Simple Sentence: "Her eyes were blue with age."
- Compound-Complex Sentence: "Her skin had a pattern, all her own, of numberless branching wrinkles and as though a whole little tree stood in the middle of her forehead, but a golden colour ran underneath, and the two knobs of her cheeks were illumined by a yellow burning under the dark."
- Compound Sentence: "Under the red hair came down on her neck in the frailest of ringlets, still black, and with an odor like copper."
More Information
A simple sentence has one independent clause. A compound sentence has two or more independent clauses joined by a conjunction or punctuation. A complex sentence has one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. A compound-complex sentence has two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Tips
The most common mistake is mixing up complex and compound sentences. Complex sentences only have one independent clause, while compound sentences have more than one.
Sources
- read the text carefully and identify if any the following ... - Numerade - numerade.com
- [PDF] types of sentences: simple, compound, complex - houstonisd.org
- ENGL 157 - Lecture 4 | PDF | Subject (Grammar) | Word - Scribd - scribd.com
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