I came to love the boat. Page 57
This is a simple sentence because it contains only one independent clause.
How I got this far without a real problem is hard to understand, but it was about here that my ignorance really kicked in. Page 25
This is a compound sentence because it contains 2 independent clauses.
I turned on my running lights, sheeted the sails in a bit tighter and motor sailed. Page 94
This is a complex sentence because it contains one independent clause and one dependent clause.
This wild initiation into sailing at sea gave me an accelerated education, though I made many mistakes and misread almost every important cue or clue. Page 61
This is a compound complex sentence because it contains 2 independent clauses and one dependent clause.
Squall upon squall, with fifty- and sixty-knot guts of wind that knocked the boat down one way, then another, building large confused waves that would come over the stern, then sweep the boat from the side, then the bow, then the side, then the stern again-a roar of water and noise and cracks of thunder and bright light as lighting slashed the water all around the boat like incoming artillery. Page 90
This sentence confuses me because of the way it starts. I also don’t know what the first phrase means. It also perplexes me because is hard to break down and is too long.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Blog Assignment #1 - Caught by the Sea
Page 80-81
As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over.
Well, that’s true. If you do things wrong they flip over and there you are. But on the upside, they don’t sink, as do keeled boats, because they do not have ballast and the hulls are made of foam that floats. If they flip you wind up with an enormous, really stable life raft, so in the end it’s still all a compromise and you give on one side to gain on the other.
This passage strikes me because he doesn’t care what the other sailors say about the catamarans. He doesn’t care about taking one more risk. He looks at the positive side of the catamarans. It doesn’t matter if the catamaran flips, you will still have something to float on. He loves the adventure and the risk that comes with it. He has to ride the catamaran.
As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over.
Well, that’s true. If you do things wrong they flip over and there you are. But on the upside, they don’t sink, as do keeled boats, because they do not have ballast and the hulls are made of foam that floats. If they flip you wind up with an enormous, really stable life raft, so in the end it’s still all a compromise and you give on one side to gain on the other.
This passage strikes me because he doesn’t care what the other sailors say about the catamarans. He doesn’t care about taking one more risk. He looks at the positive side of the catamarans. It doesn’t matter if the catamaran flips, you will still have something to float on. He loves the adventure and the risk that comes with it. He has to ride the catamaran.
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