(Page 2~3 The plane crashed and broke in half near the ship, and the sharks that had been following the troopship moved to the women and children in the water, many of whom were bleeding into the water from injuries. The attack was fast, ripping savage. Some of the people were killed and many others left with terrible wounds that I would see later when they came aboard the ship from the lifeboats. ~ Terrible as it was, I found the attack not frightening but somehow natural, a part of what I was seeing for the first time. ~ screams and the sounds of people dying filled the air. But even so, I found myself looking out across the expanse of water on the other side of the ship, away from the sinking plane and struggling people.
In this paragraph, the author describes how does he is caught by the sea for the first time. I wonder about how does the boy who is only seventeen years old can be attracted the sea during people are dying; however, this scene also gives different view and image to me.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
post assignment #2
Sentence Types
Simple
I set it up with the canoe tied to a dock on a lake in northern Minnesota.
(page 8)
Another such wave could easily be the end of us. (page 45)
-- In these sentences, there are only one independent claue.
Compound
Looking at it one way, I was working at destroying myself, and the boat worked equally hard at saving me. (page62)
I was working in Hollywood, learning to write, and the second thing happened that would change my life forever. (page6)
- Each sentence has coordinator like "And", and is consisted with two independents clauses.
Complex
I was living on less than four thousand dollars a year, so that pretty much wiped out the four million-dollar boats. (page 17)
I pulled on my clothes, and a jacket since it was fairly cool. (page32)
- In each sentence, there is subordinator such as "so that" or " since"; moreover, each sentece has only one independent clauses and one dependent cluase.
Compound- Complex
But I am sixty now, and I can’t imagine that I’ll die from eating an Oreo cookie since I didn’t die from all the crazy dangerous things I’ve done. (page 85)
It was hanked on, and for some reason I had difficulty figuring out how it worked, so I put I on and took it off several times as we rolled wildly, with no wind to steady the boat in the swells, hanging on to the stay with one hand while I worked with the other. (page 39)
- In each sentence, there are two independent sentences, and I can see coordinaotr and subordinator between two independent senteces.
(Unsure sentence type)
On the second day I ate the can of beans, but on the third day of lying there, with the sun cooking and dying everything out, a cautionary switch went off in my brain and I ate nothing but drank probably a gallon of water.
- I think this is simple sentence because there is only one complete clause.
Simple
I set it up with the canoe tied to a dock on a lake in northern Minnesota.
(page 8)
Another such wave could easily be the end of us. (page 45)
-- In these sentences, there are only one independent claue.
Compound
Looking at it one way, I was working at destroying myself, and the boat worked equally hard at saving me. (page62)
I was working in Hollywood, learning to write, and the second thing happened that would change my life forever. (page6)
- Each sentence has coordinator like "And", and is consisted with two independents clauses.
Complex
I was living on less than four thousand dollars a year, so that pretty much wiped out the four million-dollar boats. (page 17)
I pulled on my clothes, and a jacket since it was fairly cool. (page32)
- In each sentence, there is subordinator such as "so that" or " since"; moreover, each sentece has only one independent clauses and one dependent cluase.
Compound- Complex
But I am sixty now, and I can’t imagine that I’ll die from eating an Oreo cookie since I didn’t die from all the crazy dangerous things I’ve done. (page 85)
It was hanked on, and for some reason I had difficulty figuring out how it worked, so I put I on and took it off several times as we rolled wildly, with no wind to steady the boat in the swells, hanging on to the stay with one hand while I worked with the other. (page 39)
- In each sentence, there are two independent sentences, and I can see coordinaotr and subordinator between two independent senteces.
(Unsure sentence type)
On the second day I ate the can of beans, but on the third day of lying there, with the sun cooking and dying everything out, a cautionary switch went off in my brain and I ate nothing but drank probably a gallon of water.
- I think this is simple sentence because there is only one complete clause.
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