1. Simple- “I was discharged from the army after nearly four years, most of it spent at Fort Bliss, Texas, in May of 1962.”(Page 5)
The sentence has only one subject-verb and it is independent clause.
2. Compound- “I was living on less than four thousand dollars a year, so that pretty much wiped out the four-million-dollar boats.” (Page17)
The sentence has two subject-verbs, and both of them are independent clauses because the clause which is “so that pretty much wiped out the four-million-dollar boats” starts with “so” to combine these two independent clauses. Therefore, this sentence is compound.
3. Complex-“Until boat skewed up into the wind when I didn’t steer and the sails slatted and awakened me.” (Page 69)
This sentence has two subject-verbs and one independent clause which is “until boat skewed up into the wind” and one dependent clause that is “because I didn’t steer and the sails slatted and awakened me,” because the sentence starts with “because” to combine them, so this sentence is complex sentence.
4. Compound-complex- “Hunger set in heavily; I was a hearty eater and used to regular meals because I’d just gotten out of the army and hadn’t started to starve as a writer yet.” (Page 66)
This sentence has three complete sentences. “Hunger set in heavily; I was a hearty eater and used to regular meals” is a compound sentence that combines two independent clauses because of semi-colon. The complex sentence is “because I’d just gotten out of the army and hadn’t started to starve as a writer yet,” which is a dependent clause. Therefore, a compound sentence and a complex sentence combines together that are compound-complex.
5.“To show me the sea.” (Page 82)
I don’t know it is a sentence or not, because of no subject-verb here. I think “to show” is infinitive that may be a subject but it does not have a verb in this sentence. I am confused that.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
“I was living on less than four thousand dollars a year, so that pretty much wiped out the four-million-dollar boats.”
This sentence is most like a complex sentence than a compound because after the coodinator it has to be an independent clause but this sentence after the coodinator it is a dependent clause.
I also think that this setence is a complex sentence. However, unlike above comment, I think "so that" is subordinator,so the clause that comes after sobordinator is a dependent clasue.
Post a Comment