Lesson · E.1.3
Correct sentence structure
The four sentence types, the eight parts of speech, and how subjects and objects fit together, the building blocks behind most grammar questions.
ObjectiveE.1.3Read2 minExam weightConventions of Standard English ≈ 36% of English and Language Usage
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- Identify independent and dependent clauses in a sentence.
- Classify a sentence as simple, complex, compound, or compound-complex.
- Locate the direct and indirect object in a sentence.
What the lesson concludes
- Find the independent and dependent clauses first. The count and order of clauses tells you the sentence type.
- Simple has one independent clause, complex adds a dependent clause, compound joins two independent clauses, and compound-complex does both.
- Every word fills one of eight parts of speech: noun, pronoun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, or interjection.
- Find the direct object by asking "the verb what?" and the indirect object by asking "to or for whom?"