Complex Sentences :

Study the following sentence structures and write three of your own in each category.

Modifiers Before Main Statement.

If you can keep your head when everyone around you is panicking, you probably don't understand the situation.

From the onset of his jouney to the heart of darkness, Marlow witnesses many incidents that reveal the human capacity for evil.

The danger of sideswiping another vehicle, the knowledge that a hidden bump or hole could throw me from the dune buggy, both of these things added to the thrill of the race.

Modifiers within a Main Statement. Inserting one or more modifiers into a main statment creates a sentence with interrupted order. Interruptive

The young girl, wearing a tattered dress and looking anything but well-off herself, gave the beggar a ten-dollar bill.

Dewey declared, in a loud, happy voice, that the concert was the best he'd ever heard.

The bedsprings, bent and rusted, festooned with spider webs, lay on top of the heap.

The evolutionists, piercing beneath the show of momentary stability, discovered, hidden in rudimentary organs, the discarded rubbish of the past.

Modifiers that follow the main idea. Loose

He burst suddenly into the party, loud, angry, obscene.

The family used to gather around the hearth, doing such chores as polishing shoes, mending ripped clothin, reading, chatting, always warmed by one another's presence as much as by the flames.

There are three essential qualities for buzzard country: a rich supply of unburied corpses, high mountains, a strong sun.