Ages 11–14📖 EnglishBeing planted

Types of Sentences

Choose among and construct simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to signal different relationships among ideas, varying sentence patterns deliberately for meaning, interest, and style

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Question 1 of 3

Which sentence type best describes the sentence: "Because the homework was difficult, Maya asked her teacher for help."?

Question 2 of 3

Read the sentence below and choose the answer that both names its correct sentence type and explains why the writer used that structure: "When the bell rang, the students filed out, and the teachers began their meeting."

Question 3 of 3

Which type of sentence is the following? "Although it was raining, the players kept practicing, and the coach shouted instructions."

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