Name:
Date:
Period:
The Crucible
Grammar Practice: Subjects, Verbs, Sentence Types



Please read through each sentence then “chunk” it into its separate meaningful divisions such as the subject, verb,
independent and dependent clauses.
Underline the subject once and the verb twice.
Underneath the sentence, identify whether it is SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX, COMPOUND-COMPLEX,
or a FRAGMENT.
1.) A small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year
1692.
2.) At the time of these events Parris was in his middle forties.
3.) The American continent stretched endlessly west, and it was full of mystery for them.
4.) Long-held hatreds of neighbors could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken, despite the Bible’s
charitable injunctions.
5.) Tituba is in her forties.
6.) Thomas Putnam was the eldest son of the richest man in the village.
7.) As with every other public cause in which he tried to force his way, he failed in this.
8.) You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife!
9.) The words “going up to Jesus” are heard in the psalm, and Betty claps her ears suddenly and whines loudly.
10.) Giles Corey is knotted with muscle, canny, inquisitive, eighty-three, and still powerful.
11.) Another suggestion to explain the systematic campaign against Rebecca, and inferentially against Francis, is the
land war he fought with his neighbors, one of whom was a Putnam.
12.) I am one of nine sons; the Putnam seed have peopled this province.
13.) A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
14.) Once such an equation is effectively made, society becomes a congeries of plots and counter plots, and the main
role of government changes from that of the arbiter to that of the scourge of God.
15.) Our opposites are always robed in sexual sin, and it is from this unconscious conviction that demonology gains
both its attractive sensuality and its capacity to infuriate and frighten.
16.) Seven dead in childbirth.
17.) I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil!
18.) Abigail Williams told you it had naught to do with witchcraft!
Name:
Date:
Period:
The Crucible
Grammar Practice: Subjects, Verbs, Sentence Types



Please read through each sentence then “chunk” it into its separate meaningful divisions such as the subject, verb,
independent and dependent clauses.
Underline the subject once and the verb twice.
Underneath the sentence, identify whether it is SIMPLE, COMPOUND, COMPLEX, COMPOUND-COMPLEX,
or a FRAGMENT.
1.) A small upper bedroom in the home of Reverend Samuel Parris, Salem, Massachusetts, in the spring of the year
1692.
2.) At the time of these events Parris was in his middle forties.
3.) The American continent stretched endlessly west, and it was full of mystery for them.
4.) Long-held hatreds of neighbors could now be openly expressed, and vengeance taken, despite the Bible’s
charitable injunctions.
5.) Tituba is in her forties.
6.) Thomas Putnam was the eldest son of the richest man in the village.
7.) As with every other public cause in which he tried to force his way, he failed in this.
8.) You drank a charm to kill John Proctor’s wife!
9.) The words “going up to Jesus” are heard in the psalm, and Betty claps her ears suddenly and whines loudly.
10.) Giles Corey is knotted with muscle, canny, inquisitive, eighty-three, and still powerful.
11.) Another suggestion to explain the systematic campaign against Rebecca, and inferentially against Francis, is the
land war he fought with his neighbors, one of whom was a Putnam.
12.) I am one of nine sons; the Putnam seed have peopled this province.
13.) A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence.
14.) Once such an equation is effectively made, society becomes a congeries of plots and counter plots, and the main
role of government changes from that of the arbiter to that of the scourge of God.
15.) Our opposites are always robed in sexual sin, and it is from this unconscious conviction that demonology gains
both its attractive sensuality and its capacity to infuriate and frighten.
16.) Seven dead in childbirth.
17.) I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil!
18.) Abigail Williams told you it had naught to do with witchcraft!