Exercise: Classifying sentences

Classify the following sentences as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. In addition, note any sentence that may be classified as interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. Write your classifications in the text box below each sentence.

Click Submit after each question to record your answer. If your instructor has assigned this exercise set, you must answer every question before your answers will be submitted to the gradebook.

  1. Question

    77n4ESgKivfawKlzMU06LW3J5673+MbCbLKWuPLkxUiIQDoi+fZTEIxHpLAi6I57Idhe7/nCnNWAXFHgEMKsnQV2KDlctQw6lNEbYkPsbimWW0IFRoYpnA==
    The boat rocked and lurched over the rough surf as the passengers groaned in agony.

  2. Question

    BVe5N+ZNOLS5KMJnJlrJwpzEDzxYdsm9paDiJzfAXyqiP0OARJwL3BMeSQ6Tm+Ba+iaAIk+8h7RZeZ/PtGbEhzUdsG1Z8LGY
    Is this the coldest winter on record, or was last year even worse?

  3. Question

    YEFNObngfcNltyOeYX/fY464BKVQ1ekaglpBsu0COem31xz9LAzGnKfqTOAUqm31CI/k2bpB4r5eRuZ3bjDQDksm5QCeOXvZugQmP/tOennOc/451tO8RQ==
    After waiting for over an hour, I was examined by the doctor for only three minutes!

  4. Question

    SnTH7XhKWxLOpqCIK8uwGQFT78qeg0OpvEcn9j4ThSfSchGh9shqukWPkEgzW6RZhLYZ37kax+QUXcRqqEfAvFnJSKgEkOs0bHAhcYr0dJCyocQah7qDkZh6UYRQQ4adfjdtzbdhGRo=
    Keeping in mind the terrain, the weather, and the length of the hike, decide what you need to take.

  5. Question

    BswNMJV00RUgWrZcRfqiYE8nck63947mfYhlxME1RruulZ8dsXBjJXY9gTzujVt4XOItR/7OwrxgH3N6bDq7+7UlhUMXD20D2x3lvzpUtxSrKPejdGV2ubNAh3fUj/PTAEZe7IKg2NlfYHSq6XdPhA7iZb0JPryz
    The former prisoner, who was cleared by DNA evidence, has lost six years of his life, and he needs a job right away.