Assignment 3 - Sentences of "Caught by the sea"

Simple Sentence:
"I was nearly killed in twenty-two minutes." (Pg. 103)
This sentence is SIMPLE because it contains only one clause.

Compound Sentence:
"I had just sat up and it drove me back down." (Pg. 55)
This sentence is COMPOUND because it contains two independent clauses joined by coordinating conjunction like and.

Complex Sentence:
"I was halfway there when we got hit." (Pg. 97)
This sentence is COMPLEX because it contains an independent clause joined by a dependent clause. Also, this sentence is complex because it has a subordinating conjunction, such as because.

Compound- Complex Sentence:
"But I had not seen it until just now, when my mother had come down inside the boat to get me, breathlessly telling me that a plane full of people was going to crash near the ship and that I should come to watch." (Pg. 2)
This is a COMPOUND-COMPLEX sentence because it contains three dependant clauses and one independent clause. Also, this sentence contains two coordinating conjunctions and one subordinating conjunction.

Indeterminate Sentence:
"The cat-and it is strange that I still think of her thus not as "she," as with other boats, and only rarely by her name, Ariel-has taught me many things about technical sailing, but the most important thing to know about sailing a catamaran is that weight is bad." (Pg. 84)
This sentence perplexes me because three coordinating conjunctions and two subordinating conjunctions, but I can't distinguish the clauses.

Assignment 2 - "Caught by the Sea"

"The boat had carried me out here, the boat woul carry me back. But I had to sail it. Not just sit and look at the sails and let the boat move but actually try and figure out waht was happening, try to learn what it meant to sail".(Pg. 70)

I believe that every one of us has goals, dreams or just desires that wants to make real. Unfortunately to make them real, you have to work hard, not just have thoughts about them. An example of that, it’s what the author tries to communicate in this passage. He didn’t want to have a boat just to have it. Instead, he wanted to learn everything about it and about sailing, because that’s why he bought the boat. He didn’t want to be a mediocre, so he learned about that with a lot of effort. That’s why this passage strikes me. The author had a lot of determination to complete his goals and succeed. That’s an educational action that everyone should follow. Always follow your dreams in a successfully way and learn of what you just finish.