Exercise: Look at the following sentences and identify the parts of the sentences. Indicate if the sentences are simple, compound, or complex sentences.

1. The tall man with the brown cap shoots the fierce lion accurately in the chest between the bushes.
2. The girl is very pretty.
3. Boys like to play rugby, but girls prefer netball.
4. The boy who has pimples is nevertheless good-looking.
5. A corner of the garden, between the pond and the red-brick wall, is lush, though not colourful.

The tall man with the brown cap shoots the fierce lion accurately in the chest between the bushes.
- This sentence is a simple sentence. It consists of a single independent clause with a subject (The tall man) and a predicate (shoots the fierce lion accurately in the chest between the bushes).
The girl is very pretty.
- This is also a simple sentence. It contains a straightforward independent clause with a subject (The girl) and a predicate (is very pretty).
Boys like to play rugby but girls prefer netball.
- This is a compound sentence. It has two independent clauses ('Boys like to play rugby' and 'girls prefer netball') joined by the coordinating conjunction 'but'.
The boy who has pimples is nevertheless good-looking.
- This is a complex sentence. It contains an independent clause ('The boy is nevertheless good-looking') and a dependent (or relative) clause ('who has pimples'). The dependent clause provides additional information about the subject.
A corner of the garden, between the pond and the red-brick wall, is lush, though not colourful.
- This sentence is a complex sentence. It includes an independent clause ('A corner of the garden is lush') and a dependent clause ('though not colourful'), where the dependent clause provides additional commentary about the main clause.