| A | B |
| conjunction | and/or/but/for/nor/or/so/yet |
| conjunctive adverb | however/hence/therefore |
| Jack | subject (simple) |
| climbed | predicate (simple) |
| The hairiest cat | complete subject |
| coughed up a furball | complete predicate |
| Eagles and Giants | compound subject |
| run and kick | compound verb |
| score touchdowns and dance in the end zone | compound predicate |
| Professor Hardy is a brillant professor | independent clause |
| Because she is imaginative | subordinate clause |
| (we visited the site) that Hiram Bingham discovered | restrictive adjective clause |
| (we visited Macchu Picchu), which Hiram Bingham discovered | nonrestrictive adjective clause |
| Two friends invented the first trivia game. | simple sentence |
| Bette Nesmith typed on an electric typewriter, and she often made mistakes. | compound sentence |
| If cockleburs had not clung to his jacket, George de Mestal might never have invented Velcro. | complex sentence |
| While another might have been annoyed, he was intrigued, and he thought of a use to which the phenomenon could be put. | compound-complex sentence |
| Hired a student to work in the office. | sentence fragment |
| A gopher runs errands for others, gophers should be energetic. | run-on sentence |