Tuesday, June 5, 2007

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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