HSPT Language Skills
Master the essential language skills needed to succeed on the HSPT, including grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, and sentence structure.
Advanced Topics
Sentence Structure and Types
Building Better Sentences
Understanding sentence structure helps you write and recognize clear, varied sentences.
Types of Sentences
- Simple Sentence: One independent clause.
She reads every night. - Compound Sentence: Two independent clauses joined by a conjunction.
She reads every night, and she writes in her journal. - Complex Sentence: One independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
Because she loves stories, she reads every night.
Avoiding Run-ons and Fragments
- Run-on: Two sentences joined incorrectly.
She reads every night she writes in her journal. - Fragment: An incomplete sentence.
Because she loves stories.
Practice
Mix up your sentence types to make your writing more interesting!
Examples
I finished my homework, and I played soccer.
Although it was raining, we went outside.
In a Nutshell
Knowing sentence types helps you write clearly and avoid common mistakes.