“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.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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)
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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"I looked at the front of the boat."( Pg. 47)
This is a SIMPLE sentence because it has only one clause.
www.cambronrebeca.blogspot.com
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."
http://yjpapaya.blogspot.com
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."
http://ensl0091-251.blogspot.com/
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.
http://minh-khieu.blogspot.com/
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.
http://thaonguyen85.blogspot.com/
Thursday, May 31, 2007
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.
"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.
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