Sentence Structure

Question 1

Billy and Bartholomew sat and ate a bug.

Answer 1

simple

Question 2

After Noah’s boa escaped, it swallowed Opie’s bowling trophy.

Answer 2

complex

Question 3

Farthington’s father is a doctor, and Dottie’s father is a vampire

Answer 3

compound

Question 4

When Mytrle bowls, her teammates are required to wear helmets.

Answer 4

complex

Question 5

Norman wore his jacket to the dance, but he forgot his pants.

Answer 5

compound

Question 6

Because Rockefeller dropped his clock, it only ticks and never tocks.

Answer 6

complex

Question 7

Jack answered an ad for a mall elf, but he was underqualified.

Answer 7

compound

Question 8

Quigley and Kaitlin fell in love on a crowded elevator when their dental headgears intertwined.

Answer 8

complex

Question 9

Eunice stopped wearing eucalyptus lotion after she was attacked by a group of hungry sloths.

Answer 9

complex

Question 10

Little Wilbur wanted creamed corn instead of cake for his birthday.

Answer 10

simple

Question 11

After Little Miss Muffet ate too much whey, she weighed too much to sit on her tuffet.

Answer 11

complex

Question 12

When Toby probed his nose, he found a dozing two-toed toad.

Answer 12

complex

Question 13

A giant, slithering, slimy slug swallowed Billy and his friend Biff and spit them out like a couple of pieces of flavorless gum.

Answer 13

simple

Question 14

Sally’s feet fit her new sandals, but her toenails were too long.

Answer 14

compound

Question 15

The catfish purred and the shark barked.

Answer 15

compound

Question 16

Nora worried when her date took her to a seafood restaurant and ordered bait.

Answer 16

complex

Question 17

Small birds can’t chirp when they’re burping.

Answer 17

complex

Question 18

Ironically, Norman can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, but he can hop and eat lamb chops.

Answer 18

compound

Question 19

A sitting duck has better luck if it learns to duck.

Answer 19

complex

Question 20

Aunt Harriet crafts her cat’s hair balls into lovely cardigans.

Answer 20

simple

Question 21

Sitting on burning ashes causes rashes and hot flashes.

Answer 21

simple

Question 22

Grumpy has many issues because people always judge him by his name.

Answer 22

complex

Question 23

Bobbing for lobsters is a fun, but painful, party game.

Answer 23

simple

Question 24

While he was pretending to be a walrus, Elroy stuck french fries up his nose.

Answer 24

complex

Question 25

Mitt faced a terrible dilemma when his mother told him to quit being a quitter.

Answer 25

complex

Question 26

Semore saw more after he found his contact on the floor.

Answer 26

complex

Question 27

Nestled into the cushions and munching on popcorn with the intensity of a hyperactive woodchuck, Zelda watched a show about an axe-bearing maniac.

Answer 27

simple

Question 28

Aunt Tallulah talks to her tulips and puts party hats on her petunias.

Answer 28

simple

Question 29

Cecil amused the class when he put breath mints up his nose.

Answer 29

complex

Question 30

Chase annoys his teachers when he erases the board with his face.

Answer 30

complex