Assignment # 10 (C)- " Help "

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 different verb forms in this passage occur with " would"? What does the use of " would" convey here?

Three different verb forms occur with " would" because would is express what do, feel....The use of" would" conveys what are the purpose that they should do: original.

Can you HELP me answer this question, please.

Assignment #10 (B)

Who is Kay-gwa-daush, and what is her white name? What is Brian's connection to her?

Kay-gwa-daush is a daughterof a white man. Her white name is Anne: original.

Correct: Kay-gwa-dash is the daughter of the Cree trapping family. Her white name is Susan Smallhorn. Brian's connection to her is that he likes her and he had met up with her family at the end of winter and had lived with them for three weeks.

Assignment #10 (A)

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

What is the sentence type here, and why?

The sentence type is a simple sentence because it has only one independent clause( subject is they, verb is called) : original.

Correct: The sentence type is a complex sentence. Because it has a fragment " A coyote...as" and the independent clause " they ......the other."

Assignment #9(b)

Mr. Tanimoto lifted them away from the boat, and as he did so, he experienced such horror at disturbing the dead-preventing them, he momentarily felt, from launching their craft and going on their ghostly way-that he said out loud, "Please forgive me for taking this boat. I must use it for others, who are alive."(p37)

This is a compound-complex sentence. How do you think?

assignment #9(a)

Dr.Sasaki, who beleived that the ememy had hit only the building he was in, got balandages and began to blind the wounds of those inside the hospital; while outside, all over Hiroshima, mained and dying citizens turned their unsteady steps toward the Red Cross Hospital to begin an invasion that was to make Dr. Sasaki forget his private nightmare for a long, long time.(p15)

This is a complex sentence. How do you think?

assignment # 8(B)

Killer whales are friendly, people said, which is sometimes true, and they only eat fish, which is not true-they not only eat seals but often dolphins as well, ang off the coast of New Zealand a female and her calf attacked a cuba diver(p102)

assignment #8(A)

But the bad dreams were rare, rarer all time, and when he had them at all now they were in the nature of fond memories of his first months alone in the bush, or even full-blown humor: the skunk that had moved in with him and kept the bear away; how Brian had eaten too many gut berries, which he'd later found were really called chokecherries(a great name, he thought); a chickadee that had once landed on his knee to take food from his hand. (p2)


I think this is a compoun-complex sentence because it has the cordinator" but" in independent clause ( but the.....all time) and five dependent clauses. How do you think?

Assignment #5

I thought it was going to be the end for him, but he made back to the boat.(Rebecca): compound-complex sentence.

In this paragraph, the author describes how does he is caught by the sea for the first time. (Yjpapaya): complex sentence.

The author loves to sail.(Minh): simple sentence.

I envy his bravery and he follows his dream through future.(Alex Jude): compound sentence.