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.