Classifying Types of sentences

Type of sentences Examples of sentences

Simple 1) At ten years old, I borrowed a book from
the library that had the word mistress in
the title..
10) It sounded like a bunch of dumb kids
playing King of the Hill.
13) Two weeks ago, I drove two-and-a-half
hours to meet my mother for a Christmas
luncheon in a quaint tea shop in my old
hometown square.
20) I wondered how many lives we change
without realising what we do is significant.
Compound 4) She was tall and thin with short auburn
hair swept back from pale, high
cheekbones.
5) Holding up one elegant finger, she
looked down at me and smiled, walked
from behind the counter. And beckoned for
me to follow.
6) We skirted the clunky computers with
their green screen savers and crossed the
tiled hallway to the carpeted adult fiction
section.
8) She walked down an aisle through the
Ss, tapping a fingernail against her even,
white teeth.
9) I felt far too old for dog stories and
villains who were as hyperbolised as
Cruella de Vil.
11) I loved to scribble in strange places and
felt insecure about my poetry.
17) Sixteen years had passed, but-for a
moment-time stood still.
19) A woman resembling the librarian, and
was probably her sister, took her by the

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Complex 2) My mother did not notice this book amid
my stack of 20 until I was at home reading
it.
3) I remember how embarrased I was as
my mother explained that I needed reading
material that was different from the book,
ahem-she cleared her throat and looked
down-that we had just returned.
7) But her walk was so graceful that she
could easily have qualified for a part in a
musical with Fred Astaire.
12) How it spurred my writing dreams to
the point that I took journals on hikes
through the woods and paused to jot down
notes in the crook of an old tree near a
clear, cold stream.
14) I dont often take my young daughter
on road trips by myself, as she needs
someone to entertain her if she is not
asleep.
15) This combined with a two-hour traffic
jam that awoke my daughter, because the
car stopped for traffic, set my nerves on
edge.
16) I had just finished thawing my nerves
and my hands with a cup of coffee in the
tea shop when I looked up and saw her.
18) And yet she still possessed that
transcendent beauty, that refined grace not
quantified by age, symmetry, or fad.