ILL GIVE YOU BRAINLIEST E2 – Sentence Structure: Classifying Sentences Directions: Classify each of the following sentences as one of the following:

S (Simple) CD (Compound) CX (Complex) CC (Compound-Complex)

1. Guy de Maupassant wrote approximately three hundred short stories during his career.

2. He often wrote about characters who struggled against their fate.

3. Greed or ambition often led to the downfall of his characters.

4. “The Necklace” is about a woman who borrowed a diamond necklace from a friend.

5. She lost the borrowed necklace, and she bought another one.

6. She returned the new necklace to the woman who had loaned the other necklace to her,

and she kept the loss secret.

7. After ten years of hard work, she paid for the necklace, but the work robbed her of her

youth and beauty.

8. She learned that the borrowed necklace had not been made of real diamonds.

9. Monsieur Loisel took out loans, moved into a garret, and worked two jobs, but he

remained thrifty, devoted, and boring.

10. Madame Loisel envied her rich friend.

11. Monsieur Loisel felt satisfied and delighted about his middle-class life.

12. Madame Loisel wished for a wealthy, fashionable, and luxurious lifestyle.

13. The setting of “The Necklace” is in Paris in the 1800’s.

14. Madame Loisel knew the horrible existence of the needy.

15. Madame Loisel learned that her sacrifices to pay for real diamonds were unnecessary.