“There was once, in the country of Alifbay, a sad city, the saddest of cities, a city so ruinously sad that it had forgotten its name”. This is a complex sentence.
“There was one a sad city”. This is the sentence in its simple form.
“It stood by a mournful sea full of glum fish, which were so miserable to eat that they made people belch with melancholy even though the skies were blue”. This is a compound sentence.
“It stood by a mourning sea full of glumfish”. This is it in a simple form taking away the second clause.
“Black smoke pouredout of the chimneys of the sadness factories and hung over the city like bad news”.
The noun phrases are: “Black smoke” and “bad news”.
The nouns are: Smoke, news, chimneys, factories, city.
The verbs are: Poured, hung.
the prepositions are: Out, over.
“There is black smoke pouring out of the chimneys of the sadness factories and hanging over the city like bad news”. In third person and present tense.
February 4, 2015 at 12:27 pm
You have shown a good understanding of basic grammar and have taken in our work on noun phrases. When you split the complex sentence into simple sentences, why did you keep the pronoun – was this a conscious choice?
Targets:
1) Revise your understanding of compound sentences
2) Aim to achieve one of the parsing badges – I think you should start with Stage two http://achieve.community.edutronic.net/stage-two-reading/dissect/