Game - activity

Create a compound or complex sentence with the simple ones

1.  I help to conserve natural sites, I save energy,  I recycle glass (compound complex): If  I recycle glass I help to conserve natural sites and I save energy.
2. People prefer using glass to plastic. Glass is cheaper than plastic. (Complex): People prefer using glass to plastic because glass is cheaper than plastic.
3.  Students need to change activities constantly; their concentration spam could last 15 or 20 minutes. (Complex): students need to change activities constantly because their concentration spam could last 15 or 20 minutes. 
4. The teacher prefers the floor to work, the chairs are not appropriate for them (Complex): The teacher prefers the floor to work because the chairs are not appropriate for them.
5. This second game works much better; the students are familiar with the game first (complex): game works much better when the students are familiar with the game first
6. Paula and Carlos ate hot dogs, Alonso drunk a soda: (compound). Paula and Carlos ate hot dogs but Alonso drunk a soda.
7. You were sad, the party was over (Complex): You were sad when the party was over
8. We all have a nice party night, you stayed worried at home. (Complex): We all have a nice party night while you stayed worried at home.
9. Joe waited for the train. The train arrived late. (Complex): The train arrived late, but Joe waited for it
10.  Marie is French, she has a particular accent in English, I don’t understand, she speaks : (compound-complex): Marie has a particular accent in English because she is French, however I don’t understand when she speaks. 

Identify the type of sentence – simple, compound or complex

I went into town and then I drove to Manchester airport.

All of a sudden, in the middle of the match, the phone rang.    

                                          

Because the bridge wasn't properly maintained by the government, it fell down.

The girl had a blister on her heel.  

               

Maria wanted a new bicycle, so she got a job to earn money. 

The panda ate loads of bamboo shoots.     

         

Caravans were parked all the way along the coast.

Create a compound or complex sentence with the simples ones

1.          She was always late; she still got good grades (compound): She was always late but she still got good grades.

2.          John runs up the hill, Mary calls the fire department (complex):  John runs up the hill while Mary calls the fire department.

3.          I stayed at home, my son and my mother went to shopping (Complex): I stayed at home while my son and my mother went to shopping .

4.          It was an accident, the car didn’t stop, (complex): It was an accident because the car didn’t stop.

5.          They stayed on the beach, the sun shone (complex): They stayed on the beach while the sun shone

6.          Camila and Felipe are tired; they were dancing last night (complex): Camila and Felipe are tired because they were dancing last night.

7.          It’s vacation time; you decide what to do with your friends during this time (complex): You decide what to do with your friends during this time because it’s vacation time.

8.          My uncle is 30 years old; he hears jazz in his car. (Complex): My uncle, who is 30 years old, hears jazz in his car.

9.          You turn off the radio; you’re not listening to music (Complex): you turn off the radio when you’re not listening to music

Internet test

Types of sentences worksheet

 Identify the type of sentence – simple, compound or complex.

1. The new Harry Potter book is brilliant.          
2. When the branch snapped, Matt fell out of the tree and broke his arm.      
3. Elephants are bigger than snails.                 
4. Elephants, which are large mammals,are bigger than snails.      
5. Mice like to eat grain and cats like to eat mice
6. In India, during the monsoon season, it is extremely hot and wet.      
7. Missy went to the zoo, and she saw the monkeys.
8. Monica wanted to go on a picnic, but it started to rain.
9. Although he ate a really big dinner, now he wants to eat cake for dessert

In the following famous quotes, you must identify which are simple sentences, compound sentences or complex sentences. Also, you have to underline the conjunctions and subordinators.

1.    The important thing is never to stop questioning. Albert Einstein

2.   If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France [Jacques Anatole Thibault] (1844-1924)

3.   When all think alike, no one is thinking very much. Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

4.   Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

5.   In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary. Kathleen Norris

6.   The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. Chinese proverb

7.   Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier

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In the following famous quotes, you must identify which are simple sentences, compound sentences or complex sentences. Also, you have to underline the conjunctions and subordinators. 

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1.    We think in generalities, but we live in details. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

2.   If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming

3.   In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love. Diego Marchi

4.   Every really new idea looks crazy at first. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)

5.   If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over. Yiddish proverb

6.   The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. Groucho Marx (1890-1977)

7.   The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything. Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694-1778)

Read the following fable, and then you have to invent one moral

with a simple sentence, one with a compound sentence and one

with a complex sentence:

Belling the Cat
An Aesop's Fable

Long ago, the mice had a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy, the Cat. Some said this, and some said that; but at last a young mouse got up and said he had a proposal to make, which he thought would meet the case. "You will all agree," said he, "that our chief danger consists in the sly and treacherous manner in which the enemy approaches us. Now, if we could receive some signal of her approach, we could easily escape from her. I venture, therefore, to propose that a small bell be procured, and attached by a ribbon round the neck of the Cat. By this means we should always know when she was about, and could easily retire while she was in the neighbourhood."

This proposal met with general applause, until an old mouse got up and said: 

"That is all very well, but who is to bell the Cat?" The mice looked at one another and nobody spoke. Then the old mouse said:  “It is easy to propose impossible remedies”

 

1.   It is better to be quite than saying absurd ideas.

2.   Think in a good solution and the problem is going to disappear

3.   Always you should say viable ideas