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Grammar (Sent Str)
Types of Sentences (RL)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Caroline and Tobias studied the trees and decided that the apples would be ripe soon. | simple |
| Harold visited the restaurant many times, yet the waitress never remembered his drink order. | compound |
| The sisters clung to one another: each represented calm and security to the other. | compound |
| The tile on the back of the tub was not properly sealed; as a result, it had to be replaced just two years later. | compound |
| The day she ran out of gas, Elisa walked seven miles and borrowed a gas can from the station attendant. | simple |
| Bob doesn’t have a clue what he is doing in his new job; then again, no one else who works there seems to know either. | compound |
| The Ford’s engine had clearly been replaced: nothing that old could run that smoothly without replacement. | compound |
| Barrels of pickles, cheese, and other products lined the walls of the general store. | simple |
| On the morning of his departure, Daryl overslept and had to book a later flight to Fort Worth. | simple |
| The small cockpit had just enough room for the pilot and the navigation equipment; a copilot was out of the question. | compound |
| On June 12, at 8 in the morning New York time, the space station will rendezvous with an unmanned commercial shuttle named Dragon. | simple |
| The purpose of the meeting was to establish a set of working procedures, but no one could agree or compromise. | compound |
| Without the help of her friends, the girl was at a loss to pick her prom dress, and she made plans to come back later in the day to try on a few choices. | compound |
| The dojo was dark that day: several overhead lights had blown earlier that morning. | compound |
| Fourteen days after the crash, Amanda was still finding chunks of tempered glass in random places like the bottom of her backpack and under the laces of her tennis shoes. | simple |
| When Eli brought Mindy flowers, she laughed and said they were silly. | complex |
| The children played tag and hopsotch since their gym equipment was locked up | complex |
| I had hoped to be an environmental scientist although I knew that I had weak math skills. | complex |
| While Amanda checked the air pressure in the tires, her boyfriend checked the oil and filled the wiper fluid. | complex |
| Sarah made three p-nut butter and jelly sandwiches because she was extremely hungry after softball practice. | complex |
| Before Marcus turned his attention to a new subject, he triple checked his English homework for small errors. | complex |
| When Any came into class, several students greated him loudly, and the teacher was annoyed that she had to stop the lesson. | compound-complex |
| Margo was a wreck: her school books were scattered throughout the entire bedroom even though she had a perfectly nice desk to study on. | compound-complex |
| Bobby had just bought his first garage when the flood hit, and the new business took the hit pretty hard. | compound-complex |
| Because Susan was a full time professor, she had many meetings and responsibilities besides her classes; as a result, her children rarely saw her on weeknights. | compound-complex |
| Terrence and Marta took the ferry from Boston to Salem because Marta had never taken a ferry before, and Terrence wanted her to see what it was like. | compound complex |
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HGTC Eng 032
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