The English Complex Sentence System
Level 1: Simple Sentences
Level 2: Compound Sentences
Level 3: The Verb System
3.4 Present perfect continuous
3.12 Future perfect continuous
Level 4: Complex Sentences
Level 5: Conditional Subordinate Clauses
5.1 Conditional subordinate clauses
Level 6: Semi-Colon Sentences
Level 7: Relative Clauses
7.1 Relative clause type #1: who, that, which
7.2 Relative clause type #2: possessive (whose)
7.3 Relative clause type #3: preposition + whom/which
7.4 Relative clause type #4: quantity + of which/whom
7.5 Relative clause type #5: preposition + whose
Level 8: Colon Sentences
Level 9: Participles and Participial Phrases
9.1 Active voice participial phrases
9.2 Passive voice participial phrases: bare
9.3 Passive voice participial phrases starting with after, before, or despite
9.4 Perfect active voice participial phrases
9.5 Participial phrases starting with “with”
9.6 Past and perfect passive participial phrases
Level 10: Noun Clauses
Level 11: Noun Clauses in Subjunctive Mood
11.1 Noun clauses in subjunctive mood
Level 12: Appositives, Adjective Clusters, Adverb Clusters
12.1 Appositives, adjective clusters, adverb clusters