Directions:

1. Read each sentence closely to comprehend its message.
2. In each sentence, identify all independent clauses and circle conjunctions. 
3. Identify each sentence as Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex.
3. When finished, hover over the sentence to check your answers.

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

In the evening I can look straight into it without getting the blackness. It has more force in the evening too. But in the morning it is painful. Just then he saw a man-of-war bird with his long black wings circling in the sky ahead of him. He made a quick drop, slanting down on his back-swept wings, and then circled again. … He watched the flying fish burst out again and again and the ineffectual movements of the bird. That school has gotten away from me, he thought. They are moving out too fast and too far. 

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