Sentence Structure
Punctuation Rules
Punctuation Rules 2
3 Types of Sentences
100

Sally wants to go to school.

No error

100

I want to go to Disneyland today; Disneyland is my favorite amusement park.

Correct use of Semicolon

100

I love seeing my 97 year old grandma every Sunday. (What is a way to rewrite this sentence?).

I love seeing my ninety-seven-year-old grandma every Sunday. 

100

Alex couldn’t see in the bright light.

(simple sentence)

200

I went to the pool yesterday I had so much fun with all of my friends.

Run-on


200

Anyone who wants to go to school only needs a few things: a backpack, pencil, pens, and notebook.

(Correct use of colon)

200

We're a fast acting team. (How can you rewrite this sentence?)

We're a fast-acting team.

200

Ichiroku assigned homework to her period 3 class, but she decided to not give homework to period 4 since they had finished all their work on time.

(compound-complex sentence)

300

The beach on Friday.

Fragment

300

Dave can’t wait to go to the movies today but Jake is nervous to watch the horror movie.

(needs a comma with the fanboys).

300

I enjoyed my time at my friend's house

Singular possession

300

Josie wanted to go to the park with Jasmine yet they weren’t sure if they had a ride to the park.

(compound sentence)

400

I'd be so much happier if I didn't have homework, because it takes so much time out of my day.

Comma Splice

400

Ashley didn’t know what to bring to the picnic so she only brought a blanket a basket and a few snacks.

(needs commas because it is a list)

400

The men's room was poisoned with filth.

Weird Singular possession

400

Format of complex sentence

(subordinating conjunctions then dependent clause, independent cause. Or independent clause subordinating conjunction dependent clause)

500

There are so many bees in the garden so my mom told me to be careful when going outside.

Run-on

500

When at the store Jake bought all of the candy he could see.

(Needs a comma because of intro phrase)

500

I said the test for Frank wasn’t that hard, but I didn’t do too good anyway. (Identify any apostrophe rules is there one or more than one?)

(Omission) Used twice

500

Format of compound-complex sentence

(IC, asst IC sc IC. or sc DC, IC, asst IC.)

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