Sentence Structures

Simple Sentences

• The painter's son promised to paint Mr Dobbin's head a golden colour.
• Tom suddenly stopped reciting the poem.
• Tom looked around helplessly in the school hall.

Compound Sentence

• His knife was there so he must be guilty.
• Tom had a terrible dream and he screamed in his sleep.
• Tom was fond of books about pirates and he liked reading books about buried treasure.

Complex Sentence

• The boys were back again in the haunted house where they had visited before.
• The boys were trembling with excitement when they saw the gold in the box.
• Widow Douglas's husband sent Red Joe who was a friend of Spaniard to prison.