SENTENCE PATTERNS
- Print out a clean copy of your ten sentences. (If you haven’t
revised irregularities in your
citation, do so now!)
- Identify the "skeleton" of each clause and mark it as
dependent/subordinate or independent.
- Label each sentence by its grammatical pattern: Simple, Complex,
Compound, Compound-Complex.
- If you have a sentence that doesn’t fit one of these patterns (a
deliberate fragment or a brief interjection), label it “Irregular.”
As always, if you have any questions, please ask.