Kinds of Sentences
Did you see the tornado?
interrogative
What is the complete subject in this sentence?
Winds whirl around at high speeds.
Winds
What is the simple subject in this sentence?
The gusty winds uproot trees.
Is the sentence compound or simple?
Warm air rises rapidly, and sometimes it begins to spin
compound
Fragment, run-on, or sentence?
Always keep away from windows during a tornado.
sentence
exclamatory
What is the complete predicate in this sentence?
Winds whirl around at high speeds.
whirl around at high speeds
What is the simple subject in this sentence?
About 700 tornadoes occur in the United States each year.
tornadoes
Is the sentence compound or simple?
The spinning air sometimes forms a tornado.
simple
Fragment, run-on, or sentence?
The National Weather Service
fragment
How lucky were we?
interrogative
What is the complete subject in this sentence?
A tornado looks like a dark funnel-shaped cloud.
A tornado
What is the simple subject in this sentence?
The powerful storms damage everything in their path.
storms
Is the sentence complex or not complex?
Although most tornadoes last only a few minutes, they can cause great damage.
complex
Fragment, run-on, or sentence?
Warns people about tornadoes.
fragment
A tornado hit the town yesterday.
declarative
What is the complete predicate in this sentence?
The twisting cloud picks up dirt from the ground.
picks up dirt from the ground
What is the simple predicate in this sentence?
Weather scientists track tornadoes.
track
Is the sentence complex or not complex?
The Fujita scale or F-scale measures a tornado's intensity.
not complex
Fragment, run-on, or sentence?
A storm cellar gives the best protection from a tornado a basement is the next safest place.
run-on
Look at these photos.
imperative
What is the complete predicate in this sentence?
The dangerous storms move in a narrow path across the earth.
move in a narrow path across the earth
What is the simple predicate in this sentence?
Most tornadoes hit the midwestern states.
hit
An F5 rating on the F-scale stands for the greatest wind strength any tornado can have.
not complex
Fragment, run-on, or sentence?
They encouraged him they helped him.
run-on