Zerbe, Robert

I am tired the boy said and then drifted off to sleep.

NP: the boy

Articles: The

Common Nouns: sleep, I

Proper Nouns: boy

Adj: Tired

VP: said and then drifted off

Verbs: said, drifted, am

Adv:

PP: to sleep

Prepositions: to

Article:

Nouns: sleep

DO (if any exist):

Noun:

Article:

IC:

DC:

Sentence Type (Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound Complex) Simple

Sentence Correctly Punctuated: “I am tired” the boy said, and then drifted off to sleep.

We really should be going now she said. NP: going now

Articles:

Common Nouns: going

Proper Nouns:

Adj:

VP: really should be

Verbs: should, be

Adv: really

PP:

Prepositions:

Article:

Nouns:

DO (if any exist):

Noun:

Article:

IC:

DC:

Sentence Type (Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound Complex)

Sentence Correctly Punctuated:

“We really should be going now,” she said.

I received an incomplete on my homework because I forgot to write my name on it. NP: my name

Articles:

Common Nouns: name

Proper Nouns:

Adj: my

VP: I forgot to write

Verbs: forgot, write

Adv:

PP: on it

Prepositions: on

Article:

Nouns: it

DO (if any exist):

Noun:

Article:

IC: I received an incomplete on my homework

DC: because I forgot to write my name on it.

Sentence Type (Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound Complex)

Compound

Sentence Correctly Punctuated: I received an incomplete on my homework because I forgot to write my name on it.

9 October 2012

Compound Sentence – a sentence with two independent clauses in it.

Empire High School has a science club, and the science club has one many awards at science Olympiad.

IC + IC

Complex Sentence – a sentence with one independent clause and one dependent clause.

Facebook is very popular but it can have some negative effects.

IC + DC

Compound complex sentence – Has and independent clause a dependent/independent clause and a dependant clause.

Science is very important to our lifestyles, as time passes it continues to grow, but many people find its concepts hard to grasp.

IC + DC + DC

11 October 2012

Unpunished but are forever separated from God.

The lustful are forever forced to be separate from each other being torn away in a Tornado.

The gluttonous are are forever stuck unable to move while a three headed beast eats them.

Misers and Spendthrifts (which Scrooge is guilty of both, at the beginning of the story he doesn't spend any money but at the end he doesn't stop) will take turns rolling stones at one another.

Heretics are set on fire and then buried.

Those that commit violence against others are are drowned in a river of blood.

Those that commit violence against themselves are forever attacked by harpies.

15 October 2012

1. The world record free fall was accomplished recently, and Baumgartner is receiving great praise from his accomplishment. This sentence is a compound sentence because it has two independent clauses. 2. Einstein is one of the most famous scientist in history because of his work in physics in the early twentieth century. This sentence is a complex sentence because it has one independent clause and one dependent clause. 3. 3) Commas are used to connect ideas and create pause in order to help the reader understand the text, while semicolons are used to create a pause which is greater than a comma but less than a period. Semicolons can be used to connect to independent clauses. Commas have many more uses than the semicolon. 2) My brother, my friends, and I would have used commas in the this sentence in order to separate our names. The harpies in Dante's Inferno could have easily been weeping angels, if so it would explain why they attacked the eyes of their victims. A comma is used in this sentence to connect the two clauses. 1) The comparison of weeping angels to harpies is not perfect; weeping angels themselves in body an entirely different them than the harpies. A semicolon is used in this sentence to combine two independent clauses.