Title: Default for Four Basic Sentence Structures
Course: Introduction to Grammar

Q: For each sentence, identify whether it is a simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex sentence structure.
- We bought a new computer program that helps with spelling and grammar. | complex
- No kitten or puppy compares to my pet boa constrictor. | simple
- When I watch Martha Graham's dances, I feel like studying dance. | complex
- We felt sorry for the cub that had its leg in a trap. | complex
- Alexander the Great, who conquered most of the known world, died at the age of thirty-three. | complex
- The little theater group was happy with the performances, and everyone immediately set to work to find new plays so that next season would be successful, too. | compound-complex
- The smoke, which grew steadily thicker and darker, billowed through the dry forest, and the animals ran ahead of it as the fire spread quickly. | compound-complex
- The first mayor of our town was elected in 1854 and won by a unanimous vote. | simple
- Some of the sailors who took part in the mutiny on the British ship BOUNTY settled Pitcairn Island. | complex
- A director of a theater-in-the-round visited our class, and we listened to his humorous stories for almost an hour. | compound