Worksheet on identifying simple, compound, and complex sentences with multiple-choice questions.

Let’s go through each question one by one and figure out the correct answer.

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Question 1: What type of sentence contains 1 subject and 1 predicate?

- A simple sentence has just one complete thought — that means one subject and one predicate.
- Compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences all have more than one clause (so more than one subject-predicate pair).

✔ So the answer is: simple sentence

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Question 2: What type of sentence contains 1 independent clause and 1 dependent clause?

- An independent clause can stand alone as a sentence.
- A dependent clause cannot stand alone — it needs the independent clause to make sense.
- When you combine one of each, that’s called a complex sentence.

✔ So the answer is: complex sentence

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Question 3: What type of sentence contains 2 or more independent clauses?

- If you have two or more independent clauses joined together (usually with a comma + conjunction like “and” or “but”), that’s a compound sentence.
- It doesn’t matter if there are no dependent clauses — as long as there are 2+ independent ones, it’s compound.

✔ So the answer is: compound sentence

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Question 4: What type of sentence contains 2 or more independent clauses and at least 1 dependent clause?

- This is the most complicated kind!
- You’ve got multiple independent clauses (like a compound sentence) PLUS at least one dependent clause (like a complex sentence).
- That combo is called a compound-complex sentence.

✔ So the answer is: compound-complex sentence

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Question 5: Lyndon Johnson attended a teacher’s college and later studied law.

- Let’s break this down:
- “Lyndon Johnson attended a teacher’s college” → independent clause
- “later studied law” → also an independent clause? Wait — actually, “studied law” has the same subject (“Lyndon Johnson”) but it’s connected with “and”.
- Actually, this is two verbs sharing one subject: “attended... and studied...”
- So it’s still just one subject and two predicates, but they’re part of the same clause.
- Therefore, it’s still a simple sentence — because there’s only ONE subject doing TWO things.

Wait — let me double-check:

Actually, in grammar, when you have one subject with two verbs connected by “and”, it’s still considered one clause — so it’s a simple sentence.

Example: “She ran and jumped.” → Simple sentence.

So yes — this is a simple sentence.

✔ Answer: Simple

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Question 6: San Francisco is located in northern California, but Los Angeles is located in southern California.

- First part: “San Francisco is located in northern California” → independent clause
- Second part: “Los Angeles is located in southern California” → also independent clause
- They’re joined by “but” → which is a coordinating conjunction
- No dependent clauses here — just two independent clauses joined together

→ That makes it a compound sentence

✔ Answer: Compound

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Final Answer:

1. A
2. C
3. A
4. D
5. B
6. B