ILL GIVE YOU BRAINLIEST E2 – Sentence Structure: Classifying Sentences

Directions: Classify each of the following sentences as one of the following:

S (Simple) CD (Compound) CX (Complex) CC (Compound-Complex)


___________1. Guy de Maupassant wrote approximately three hundred short stories during his career.

___________2. He often wrote about characters who struggled against their fate.

___________3. Greed or ambition often led to the downfall of his characters.

___________4. “The Necklace” is about a woman who borrowed a diamond necklace from a friend.

___________5. She lost the borrowed necklace, and she bought another one.

___________6. She returned the new necklace to the woman who had loaned the other necklace to her,

and she kept the loss secret.

___________7. After ten years of hard work, she paid for the necklace, but the work robbed her of her

youth and beauty.

___________8. She learned that the borrowed necklace had not been made of real diamonds.

_______ ____ 9. Monsieur Loisel took out loans, moved into a garret, and worked two jobs, but he

remained thrifty, devoted, and boring.

___________10. Madame Loisel envied her rich friend.

___________11. Monsieur Loisel felt satisfied and delighted about his middle-class life.

___________12. Madame Loisel wished for a wealthy, fashionable, and luxurious lifestyle.

___________13. The setting of “The Necklace” is in Paris in the 1800’s.

___________14. Madame Loisel knew the horrible existence of the needy.

___________15. Madame Loisel learned that her sacrifices to pay for real diamonds were unnecessary.