Simple, Compound & Simple, Compound & Complex SentencesComplex Sentences

1. Number from 1 – 10 on your paper2. Identify the following sentences as

Simple, Compound, or Complex3. Explain what tells you that each

sentence is simple, compound, or complex

1. One of the sports that can be classified as extreme is free diving.

2. Participants hold their breath and dive hundreds of feet straight down in the ocean.

3. Deep below the ocean, water pressure squeezes the internal organs of divers, and darkness blinds them.

4. The return to the surface can kill a diver if he or she comes up too fast.

5. When the body doesn’t have time to adjust to changing pressure, internal gases expand too fast.

IdentifyingIdentifying KindsKinds ofof SentencesSentences

• One of the sports that can be classified as extreme is free diving.

1 - complex

2 - simple• Participants hold their breath and

dive hundreds of feet straight down in the ocean.

3 - compound• Deep below the ocean, water

pressure squeezes the internal organs of divers, and, and darkness blinds them.

4 - complex• The return to the surface can

kill a diver if he or she comes up too fast.

5 - complex• When the body doesn’t have time

to adjust to changing pressure, internal gases expand too fast.

6. The sudden expansion of gases causes explosions in arteries.

7. Still, the activity is popular with people who like dangerous challenges.

8. The free diving federation refuses to recognize records in “no-limits” free diving because that method of diving is too dangerous.

9. “Variable weight” and “constant weight” free diving are approved methods.

10. Scuba divers, who wear oxygen tanks, accompany free divers to help them if problems arise underwater.

6 - simple• The sudden expansion of gases causes explosions in arteries.

7 - complex• Still, the activity is popular with

people who like dangerous challenges.

8 - complex• The free diving federation

refuses to recognize records in “no-limits” free diving because that method of diving is too dangerous.

9 - simple• “Variable weight” and

“constant weight” free diving are approved methods.

10 - complex• Scuba divers, who wear oxygen

tanks, accompany free divers to help them if problems arise underwater.