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Assignment #8(b)
"He took a clearing with a slight angle and stumbled around in the dark to find wood and it was truly late by the time he was ready to get water on to boil and cut pieces of meat to make a stew." (p.64)
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This sentence has two independent clauses and one dependent clause. The first independent clause in this sentence is “He took a clearing with a slight angle and stumbled around in the dark to find wood.” The pronoun “He” functions as the subject and “took…stumbled” function as verbs in this independent clause. The second independent clause in this sentence is “it was truly late.” The pronoun “it” functions as the subject and “was” functions as the verb in this independent clause. The dependent clause in this sentence is “by the time he was ready to get water on to boil and cut pieces of meat to make a stew.” The pronoun “he” functions as the subject and “was” functions as the verb in this dependent clause. The coordinator in this sentence is “and.” Therefore, this sentence is a compound-complex sentence.
This is a compound-complex sentence because it has two independent clauses and one dependent clause. The subject is “He;” the “and” connects two verbs “took” and “stumbled” in the first independent clause,” He took a clearing a slight angle and stumbled around in the dark to find wood.” The second independent clause is “it was truly late” and the subject-verb combination is “it” and “was.” The only one dependent clause is “by the time he was ready to get water on to boil and cut pieces of meat to make a stew” and the subject is “he” then the “and” connects two verb “was” and “cut.”
This is a compound-complex sentence because it contains two independent clauses and three dependent clauses. The first independent clause is "He took a clearing with a slight angle" and the second independent clause is "he was ready to get water on to boil."
The first dependent clause is "and stumbled around in the dark to find wood." The second dependent clause is "and it was truly late by the time" and third dependent clause is and cut pieces of meat to make a stew." This sentence also has three subject and verb agreements. The first one is "He took". The second one is "it was" and the third one is "he was."
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