Explanation:

This post contains fifteen exercises on sentence structure, asking you to identify simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

Learn the four types of sentences in detail:

All about simple sentences

All about compound sentences

All about complex sentences

All about compound-complex sentences

The crux in identifying the four types of sentences is to spot dependent and independent clauses in a sentence, which, as you’ll see in several examples, can sometimes be tricky. If you struggle with any of the sentences in the exercises, you’ll most likely find the concept behind in one of the four resources linked above.

Let’s get into the exercises, which have been divided into four sections, with the level of difficulty increasing from the first to the last in each section.

Each exercise is followed by answers. In the answers, all dependent clauses have been underlined as they can be challenging to identify. Unless mentioned otherwise, all compound and compound-complex sentences in the exercises contain exactly two independent clauses.

Note: Dependent clauses have been underlined in answers for ease of identification.