Asssignment 10 (C) - "Help"

Consider this passage from Brian’s Hunt:

A coyote, perhaps, brush wolf as they called them up north, or maybe a timber wolf, two wolves, one beginning from the other.

What is the sentence type here, and why?

This sentence is composed of one independent clause in where the subject is “they” and the verb is “called.” That’s why it is a simple sentence.
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Assignmet 10 (B)

Consider this passage from Brian’s Hunt:

They had planes and guns and radios and GPS but in some ways they had no knowledge because they had all the gadgets; they missed the small things because they saw too big.

What is the situation here? What does the author mean when he writes “they saw too big”? Who is he talking about?

The author means here that most people living in big cities, get used to just material things, such as malls, cars, houses, etc. They don’t pay attention to things that can help you to grow in a mental, physical and spiritual way. Those things may don’t look much important, because in some cases they are not materials, such as education, family, love, etc.

Correction:
The situation here happens after the call that Susan did to the authorities when she found that her parents died. One of them asked Brian if he was the boy who survived after the plane crash. Then the same man asked to his partner if he was going to kill the bear who killed Susan’s parents, but the man said no because it was going to be very difficult to find the correct bear to kill.
When the author writes “they saw too big”, he means that the authorities would have all the necessary equipment but they didn’t understand anything about hunting, nor about hunting a wolf. They could be pay attention just in the weight, hair and color of the bear, but they could never know the bear.In this passage the author is talking about the authorities that went to help Susan. They were: the Canadian Mountie and the Natural Resources ranger.

Assignment 10 (A)

Consider this passage from Brian’s Hunt:

The Inuit would put a small piece of feather over the hole and stand with bone harpoon ready and when the seal came into the hole the air pushing ahead of its body would ruffle the feather and the hunter would lunge with the harpoon and bury the barbed head in the back of the seal.

Why do three verb forms in this passage occur with “would”? What does the use of “would” convey here?

Three different verb forms in this passage occur with “would” because “would” is a modal and makes the verbs function in a past that didn’t happened. The use of “would” conveys here because the author is trying to narrate actions that should pass but they didn’t.

Correction:
Three verb forms in this passage occur with “would” because the author is explaining what Inuits do to hunt a seal. The author is using an indirect speech which is a sentence reporting what someone has said or did. Even thought the indirect speech is almost always used in spoken English, the use of “would” conveys here because “will” is reported as would.

Assignment 9 - "Hiroshima" (Passage B)

“THE JESUITS took about fifty refugees into the exquisite chapel of the Novitiate. The rector gave them what medical care he could-mostly just the cleaning away of pus. Each of the Nakamuras was provided with a blanket and a mosquito net. Mrs. Nakamura and her younger daughter had no appetite and ate nothing; her son and other daughter ate, and lost, each meal they where offered. On August 10th, a friend, Mrs. Osaki, came to see them and told them that her son Hideo had been burned alive in the factory where he worked. This Hideo had been a kind of hero to Toshio, who had often gone to the plant to watch him run his machine. That night, Toshio woke up screaming. He had dreamed that he had seen Mrs. Osaki coming out of an opening in the ground with her family, and then he saw Hideo at his machine, a big one with a revolving belt, and he himself was standing beside Hideo, and for reason this was terrifying.”(Pg. 58)

This passage perplexes me because it is quite confusing for me. In sentence number four, the second clause says that Mrs. Nakamura’s son and daughter ate everything, and the last clauses says that they lost each meal they were offered. That’s confusing and I don’t understand it.

Assignment 9 - "Hiroshima" (Passage A)

“Since that day, Father Kleinsorge has thought back to how queasy he had once been at the sight of pain, how someone else’s cut finger used to make him turn faint. Yet there in the park he was so benumbed that immediately after leaving this horrible sight he stopped on a path by one of the pools and discussed with a lightly wounded man whether it would be safe to eat the fat, two-foot carp that floated dead on the surface of the water. They decided, after some consideration, that it would be unwise.” (Pg. 52)

This passage is not too hard for me to understand, but it will be totally understandable if I knew some words, such as queasy, benumbed and wounded. That’s a big problem because maybe what I understand is not what the passage says.

Assignment 8 - "Bryan's Hunt" Sentence B

"Killing the bear did not bring back his friends, did not ease the pain for Susan and her brother and sister." (Pg. 98)

Assignment 8 - "Bryan's Hunt" Sentence A

"A perfect day among many perfect days and the last thought he had before slipping into sleep was that he was in exactly the right spot at exactly the right time in his life." (Pg. 25)

Assignment 5 - Classmates' Sentences

Simple Sentence:
"I looked at the front of the boat."( Pg. 47)
This is a SIMPLE sentence because it has only one clause.
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Compound Sentence:
"I was living on less than four thousand dollars a year, so that pretty much wiped out the four million-dollar boats. "(Pg. 17)
This sentence is COMPOUND because it contains two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction, such as "so."
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Complex Sentence:
"To this day, I can’t understand why the lightning did not hit the boat." (Pg.91)
This is a COMPLEX sentence because it contains one independent clause and two dependant clauses joined by a subordinating conjunction, such as "why."
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Compound- Complex Sentence:
" I went away from there a new person, and I also began to understand things about myself, that I must see and know the oceans."(Pg.7)
This sentence is a COMPOUND-COMPLEX sentence because it has two independent clauses and one dependent clause, joined bycoordinating conjunction and a subordinating conjunction.
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Indeterminate Sentence:
"I had time for one gleeful thought of triumph as we zipped to a point almost exactly in the midle of the lake."(Pg. 9)
I can't determinate this sentence, because it seems to be a simple sentence, but it has two subjects and two verbs.
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