Thursday, May 31, 2007

Blog Assignment #3

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.

5 comments:

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Unknown said...

"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.

Are you sure this is a compound sentence and only has two independent clause? I think that you left out something very important because I saw two clauses other than the independent clause that you mentioned.

Zhiling Zeng said...
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Zhiling Zeng said...

Hello,
"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."

Is this really a complex sentece? What is the sentence type for this sentence? Why?

syed m hasan said...

I turned on my running lights, sheeted the sails in a bit tighter and motor sailed. Page 94
I don,t know how you say this is a complex sentence because this sentence has two independent clause co ordinated with "and".So what you think about the sentence and why?Is it compound or a complex sentence?