Question

Identify the correct sentence structure.
My family watches cricket matches on television but never goes to the stadium.

• A. Simple Sentence
• B. Complex Sentence
• C. Compound Sentence
• D. No Category

Hint:

Check whether the second part of the sentence can stand alone as its own clause.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

This question is about telling apart simple, compound, and complex sentences by counting clauses and checking whether each one can stand alone.

1. Simple Sentence: would need just one action tied to the subject. Here there are two actions, "watches" and "goes", so a single-action simple sentence does not describe this line.
2. Complex Sentence: needs one independent clause plus a clause that depends on it and cannot stand alone. "My family watches cricket matches on television" stands alone fine, but "never goes to the stadium" has no subject of its own and only makes sense attached to "my family" from the first part, so it behaves as a dependent addition rather than a fully separate clause.
3. Compound Sentence: would need two independent clauses, each carrying its own subject and able to stand alone, joined by "but". Since the second half has no subject written out, it fails this test.
4. No Category: does not apply, since the sentence clearly fits a describable structure.

Because the second action rides on the subject of the first clause instead of forming its own complete, standalone clause, the sentence is best read as one main clause with a dependent second part.

Let's summarize:

• A compound sentence needs two clauses that can each stand alone with their own subject.
• Here, the second action shares its subject with the first and cannot stand alone, which points to a complex sentence.

So the given sentence is a complex sentence, confirming option (b) as the answer.