Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Simple Sentences ...
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Simple Sentences ...
Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences Simple Sentences ...
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Practice: : Take a minute to make up three complex sentences in your notes. Decide whether each<br />
sentence is simple, compound, or complex.<br />
1: Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880 <strong>and</strong> died in 1968.<br />
<strong>Simple</strong><br />
<strong>Compound</strong><br />
<strong>Complex</strong><br />
2: Until she was 19 months of age, her sight <strong>and</strong> hearing were normal.<br />
<strong>Simple</strong><br />
<strong>Compound</strong><br />
<strong>Complex</strong><br />
3: At the age of 19 months, a severe illness left her deaf <strong>and</strong> blind.<br />
<strong>Simple</strong><br />
<strong>Compound</strong><br />
<strong>Complex</strong><br />
4: When she was seven, she began her education in reading <strong>and</strong> writing with Anne Sullivan of the<br />
Perkins Institute for the Blind.<br />
<strong>Simple</strong><br />
<strong>Compound</strong><br />
<strong>Complex</strong><br />
5: Through persistence <strong>and</strong> stubbornness, Anne breaks through Helen's walls of silence <strong>and</strong><br />
darkness <strong>and</strong> teaches her to communicate.<br />
<strong>Simple</strong><br />
<strong>Compound</strong><br />
<strong>Complex</strong><br />
6: Helen Keller learned to read by the Braille system, <strong>and</strong> she learned to write by using a specially<br />
constructed typewriter.<br />
<strong>Simple</strong><br />
<strong>Compound</strong><br />
<strong>Complex</strong><br />
7: Later, she entered Radcliffe College <strong>and</strong> graduated with honors in 1904.<br />
<strong>Simple</strong><br />
<strong>Compound</strong><br />
<strong>Complex</strong><br />
8: Helen Keller's story needed to be told, so in 1962, a beautiful movie was made about her life.<br />
<strong>Simple</strong><br />
<strong>Compound</strong><br />
<strong>Complex</strong><br />
9: "If there were only joy in the world, we could never learn to be brave <strong>and</strong> patient." -- Helen<br />
Keller<br />
<strong>Simple</strong><br />
<strong>Compound</strong><br />
<strong>Complex</strong><br />
10: "Life is either a daring adventure, or it is nothing." -- Helen Keller<br />
<strong>Simple</strong><br />
<strong>Compound</strong><br />
<strong>Complex</strong>
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