I was seven years old on a troopship heading to the Phillippine Islands. This is a simple sentence because this sentence only has one subject-verb combination, dependent clause.(p1)
I had time for one gleeful thought of triumph as we zipped to a point almost exactly in the midle of the lake. This is a complex sentence because it has one depent clause( I had....triumph) and one independent clause( as we.... lake)(p9)
I remember sitting in my old truck in Elpaso, Texas, thinking that I was done, had no future, and the thought popped in out of nowhere that if I did not see water soon I would die. This is a confusing sentence because it has so many " that", compound- complex sentence.(p5)
I had wind, the boat was moving and I smiled as I calculated that I would be making more than a hundred miles that day and would undoubtedly be home sometime the next morning. This is a compound-complex sentence because it has three depent clauses ( I had....smiles) and two independent clauses( as I ....morning)(p68)
Thursday, May 31, 2007
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Consider this sentence from your post:
This is a simple sentence because this sentence only has one subject-verb combination, dependent clause.
Is this sentence true or false, and why?
This sentence is false because simple sentence has ony one dependend clause. It can be two or more subjects or verbs.
I remember sitting in my old truck in Elpaso, Texas, thinking that I was done, had no future, and the thought popped in out of nowhere that if I did not see water soon I would die. This is a confusing sentence because it has so many " that", compound- complex sentence.(p5)
What do you mean that it is a confusing sentence because it has so many "that"? With the two "that" in this sentence, it helps us to recognize more clearly what clause it is.
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