Lesson 1 – What Is a Sentence?
Exercise 1
Directions: Read the following groups of words. None of them have been given fial punctuation marks.
For each one, decide whether it is a declarative sentence, an interrogative sentence, an exclamatory sen tence, an imperative sentence, or a sentence fragment. Then punctuate each appropriately. Don’t punctu ate a sentence fragment.
1. When will tomorrow morning’s band rehearsal begin
2. Always read the safety instructions before using a new power tool
3. Having spent over two hours working on her dance routine
4. The local wildlife refuge is home to over seventy species of birds
5. That was a fabulous party
Lesson 2 – Parts of a Sentence
Exercise 2
Directions: Read the following groups of words. In each one, fid the subject and the predicate. Underline
the complete subject, and put a second underline beneath the simple subject. Then circle the complete
predicate, and underline the verb.
1. Fifty-three offiers received medals at the Police Department awards ceremony.
2. Bored with the grown-up conversation, little Amy fell asleep under the kitchen table.
3. The number of businesses in this country has increased every year for the past decade.
4. According to scientists, birds and dinosaurs are biologically related.
5. All day and all night unceasingly fell the rain.
Lesson 3 – Four Types of Sentence Structures
Exercise 3
Directions: Read the following sentences. For each one, decide whether it is a simple sentence, a com pound sentence, a complex sentence, a compound-complex sentence, or a run-on sentence.
1. Jazz is the greatest American musical form, and Duke Ellington is its greatest genius.
2. Although young women want to participate in sports as much as young men, women’s sports often
don’t receive equal funding from colleges.
3. The tallest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro is the subject of a stunning new IMAX® docu mentary fim.
4. The author Mark Twain was fascinated by technology, he was the fist writer ever to deliver a typed
manuscript to his publisher.
5. When I visited California last summer, I spent one week in San Francisco, and I visited the nearby
Napa Valley with my cousin.
