Reading Carefully

Worksheet Description

This Sentence Types worksheet provides students with various sentences and instructs them to identify each as either compound or complex. Students must read each sentence carefully and decide which category it falls into based on its structure. They are then required to write ‘compound’ if the sentence contains two independent clauses joined by a conjunction, or ‘complex’ if the sentence contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause that provides additional information.

The worksheet is designed to teach students to distinguish between compound and complex sentences. Understanding the difference is crucial for writing with clarity and variety. Compound sentences are characterized by the coordination of two independent clauses, while complex sentences are marked by the subordination of clauses to highlight the main idea and provide additional details. This exercise helps students to improve their grammatical knowledge and enhances their ability to construct sentences with varied structures in their writing.