Directions:

1. Read each sentence closely to comprehend its message.
   
2. Identify each sentence as Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex.
   
3. In each sentence, identify a subject-verb combination in all dependent and independent clauses.
4. Identify dependent clauses as Adverbial, Adjective, or Noun.
5. When finished, hover the cursor over the sentence to check your answers.
   

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from “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway

But he crowded the current a little so that he was still fishing correctly though faster than he would have fished if he was not trying to use the bird.

There were other boats from the other beaches going out to sea and the old man heard the dip and push of their oars even though he could not see them now the moon was below the hills.

He was letting the current do a third of the work and as it started to be light he saw he was already further out than he had hoped to be at this hour.

The water was a dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple.

He did not remember when he had first started to talk aloud when he was by himself.

He had sung when he was by himself in the old days and he had sung at night sometimes when he was alone steering on his watch in the smacks or in the turtle boats. He had probably started to talk aloud, when alone, when the boy had left.

But he did not remember. When he and the boy fished together they usually spoke only when it was necessary. They talked at night or when they were storm-bound by bad weather.

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from “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway

When the native boys put him down at the door of his tent, he had shaken all their hands, received their congratulations, and then gone into the tent and sat on the bed until his wife came in.

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from “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde

When we meet–we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke’s–we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.

My wife is very good at it–much better, in fact, than I am.

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Abbreviations

• S – simple sentence     C- compound sentence   CX – complex sentence    C-Cx – compound-complex sentence
• IND – independent clause     DEP – dependent clause
• Adv – dependent adverbial clause
• Adj – dependent adjective clause
• N-S – dependent noun clause functioning as a subject
• N-OV – dependent noun clause functioning as object of a verb
• N-OP – dependent noun clause functioning as object of a preposition
• N-NC – dependent noun clause functioning as noun complement
• N-AC – dependent noun clause functioning as adjective complement