Grade 10 | Sentence Structure | Worksheet
Highlight the part of the sentence according to each instruction: (3)
Identify the main clause:
When the clock strikes noon, Sheldon will solve his equation.
Penny will be there, after the Cheesecake Factory is closed.
While I might be late, I will try to be there on time.
Identify the subordinate clause:
After Amy sprained her knee, she fell another two times.
Penny asked, rather impolitely, when it was time to leave.
The scientist, dressed in a white lab coat, was looking for the chemicals.
Are the following sentences simple, compound, complex or compound-
complex? (4)
Sheldon will be there, but he will only come because Penny asked him to.
Compound-Complex
Raj said that he will come, however, he will be late.
Compound
Although Amy will be late, she will still come to the party.
Complex
Penny read a spicy magazine last week.
Simple
Are the following sentences loose or periodic? (2)
Howard went into the house because Bernadette was shouting.
Loose
Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like
the yellow trains streaking down the California tracks, drama, in the
shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.
Loose
In the almost incredibly brief time it took the small but sturdy porter to
roll a milk-can across the platform and bump it, with a clang, against
other milk-cans similarly treated a moment before, Raj fell in love.
Periodic
Highlight the part of the sentence according to each instruction: (3)
Identify the main clause:
When the clock strikes noon, Sheldon will solve his equation.
Penny will be there, after the Cheesecake Factory is closed.
While I might be late, I will try to be there on time.
Identify the subordinate clause:
After Amy sprained her knee, she fell another two times.
Penny asked, rather impolitely, when it was time to leave.
The scientist, dressed in a white lab coat, was looking for the chemicals.
Are the following sentences simple, compound, complex or compound-
complex? (4)
Sheldon will be there, but he will only come because Penny asked him to.
Compound-Complex
Raj said that he will come, however, he will be late.
Compound
Although Amy will be late, she will still come to the party.
Complex
Penny read a spicy magazine last week.
Simple
Are the following sentences loose or periodic? (2)
Howard went into the house because Bernadette was shouting.
Loose
Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like
the yellow trains streaking down the California tracks, drama, in the
shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there.
Loose
In the almost incredibly brief time it took the small but sturdy porter to
roll a milk-can across the platform and bump it, with a clang, against
other milk-cans similarly treated a moment before, Raj fell in love.
Periodic
