In: Operations Management
For each of the following sentences, select the letter that identifies its type:
1. Simple sentence 3. Complex sentence
2. Compound sentence 4. Compound-complex sentence
a. Bottled water consumption rose 2.2 percent in volume last year.
b. Because Americans are increasingly health-conscious, they are drinking more bottled water than ever before.
c. Americans are drinking fewer soft drinks, and heavy-hitters Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are being hit hard.
d. Calorie-counting Americans are backing away from sugary soda, but they are also fleeing diet soda.
e. Sales volume across the entire beverage industry slid last year; however, smaller players such as Monster Beverage and Red Bull expanded their market share because they appealed to younger drinkers.
a. Bottled water consumption rose 2.2 percent in volume last year.
Type: Simple Sentence
Reason: Only one clause is there. The letter ‘Bottled water’ (subject) and ‘rose’ (verb).
b. Because Americans are increasingly health-conscious, they are drinking more bottled water than ever before.
Type: Complex Sentence
Reason: The letter ‘Because’ links the dependent clause (Americans are increasingly health-conscious) to the independent clause (they are drinking more bottled water than ever before).
c. Americans are drinking fewer soft drinks, and heavy-hitters Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are being hit hard.
Type: Complex sentence
Reason: The letter ‘and’ links the dependent clause (heavy-hitters Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are being hit hard) and independent clause (Americans are drinking fewer soft drinks).
d. Calorie-counting Americans are backing away from sugary soda, but they are also fleeing diet soda.
Type: Compound sentence
Reason: The letter ‘but’ connects the two independent clauses.
e. Sales volume across the entire beverage industry slid last year; however, smaller players such as Monster Beverage and Red Bull expanded their market share because they appealed to younger drinkers.
Type: Compound- complex sentence
Reason: The letter ‘however’ connects the two independent clause and the letter ‘because’ connects the independent clause and dependent clause.
Dependent clause: They appealed to younger drinkers.
Independent clauses: ‘Sales volume across the entire beverage industry slid last year’ and ‘smaller players such as Monster Beverage and Red Bull expanded their market share’.