Sentence Work from Class

Eng 97/98

Sentence Work from class

Key:yellow = subject; blue= verb; pink = subordinating conjunction (comes w/complex sentence only)green = coordinating conjunction (FANBOY) (comes w/compound sentence only)

Directions: Read the following sentences adapted from Shame*. Decide if they are simple (S), compound (CPD), complex (CPX). Some of the sentences may have reduced clauses, noun clauses, or adjective clauses.

__S___ 1. I never learned hate at home, or shame.

__CPX_ 2. Iwas about seven years old whenIgot my first big lesson.

__CPX___ 3. Iwas in love with Helene Tucker, who wasa light-complexioned little girl with pigtails and nice manners.

_CPX__ 4. If your Daddy can give fifteen dollars, youhave no business being on relief.

_CPD___ 5. You can’t really make a meal of paste, or put it on bread for a sandwich, but sometimes I’dscoop a few spoonfuls out of the paste jar in the back of the room.

__S___ 6. The teacheropened her book and started calling out names alphabetically.

__S___ 7. She always picked me to wash the blackboard on Friday, after school.

_____ 8. There was shame in wearing the brown and orange and white plaid mackinaw THAT the welfare gave to three thousand boys.

__CPX___ 9. Iran into the house and hidwhenitcame.

Directions: Some of the following sentences from The Jacket are correct, and some need to be fixed. Write C next to correct sentences. Write I next to incorrect sentences and then fix them.

__I___ 1. The next day whenIgot home from school Idiscovereddraped on my bedpost a jacket the color of day-old guacamole. , add comma because this is CPX

___C__ 2. Iput my hands in the pockets and flapped the jacket like a bird’s wings.

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__I___ 3. Even thoughitwas cold I took off the jacket during lunch and played kickball in a

, add comma because this is CPX

thin shirt, my arms feeling like braille from the goose bumps.– let’s forget about this part of the sentence for now

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___I__ 4. Ishowed the cracks to my mother who always seemed to be at the stove with steamed-up glasses andshesaid that there were children in New Mexico who would love that jacket. , add comma because this is CPD (“and” is a FANBOY)

__I___ 5. But whole pieces still casually flew off my jacket whenIplayed hard read quietly or took vicious spelling tests at school. , ,

Add two commas because this is a list of verbs.

*Some of the punctuation has been changed in order to be consistent with what we expect of you in academic writing. Creative writers don’t always follow the rules we teach!