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English Grammar: Sentence Structure Study Guide
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Introduction
Video Aided Instruction’s English Grammar Series
makes the tricky rules of English grammar easier
to learn than ever before – whether you’re new to
English or you’ve been speaking it for years!
Like most languages, English strings words together
into sentences in order to communicate ideas. But
many people find it difficult to construct English
sentences correctly. This program will teach you the
basic principles that govern how English sentences
are constructed, and how to put these principles to
use when you create your own sentences!
What Is a Sentence?
Directions: Read the following groups of words. None of them have been given final punctuation marks.
For each one, decide whether it is a declarative sentence, an interrogative sentence, an exclamatory sentence,
an imperative sentence, or a sentence fragment. Then punctuate each appropriately. Don’t punctuate
a sentence fragment.
1. When will tomorrow morning’s band rehearsal begin
2. Always read the safety instructions before using a new power tool
3. Having spent over two hours working on her dance routine
4. The local wildlife refuge is home to over seventy species of birds
5. That was a fabulous party
Parts of a Sentence
Directions: Read the following groups of words. In each one, find the subject and the predicate. Underline
the complete subject, and put a second underline beneath the simple subject. Then circle the complete
predicate, and underline the verb.
1. Fifty-three officers received medals at the Police Department awards ceremony.
2. Bored with the grown-up conversation, little Amy fell asleep under the kitchen table.
3. The number of businesses in this country has increased every year for the past decade.
4. According to scientists, birds and dinosaurs are biologically related.
5. All day and all night unceasingly fell the rain.
Four Types of Sentence Structures
Directions: Read the following sentences. For each one, decide whether it is a simple sentence, a compound
sentence, a complex sentence, a compound-complex sentence, or a run-on sentence.
1. Jazz is the greatest American musical form, and Duke Ellington is its greatest genius.
2. Although young women want to participate in sports as much as young men, women’s sports often
don’t receive equal funding from colleges.
3. The tallest mountain in Africa, Mount Kilimanjaro is the subject of a stunning new IMAX® documentary
film.
4. The author Mark Twain was fascinated by technology, he was the first writer ever to deliver a typed
manuscript to his publisher.
5. When I visited California last summer, I spent one week in San Francisco, and I visited the nearby
Napa Valley with my cousin.