Consider the following sentence from Guts:
A fellow and I took my dogs up from Minnesota in an old truck, driving on the Alaska Highway for eight full days, and got to a place north of a trading post named Trapper Creek. (Paulsen, 2001, p. 42)
Using grammar that we have discussed in this course, explain what you see in this sentence.
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A fellow and I took my dogs up from Minnesota in an old truck, driving on the Alaska Highway for eight full days, and got to a place north of a trading post named Trapper Creek. (Paulsen, 2001, p. 42)
here 'A fellow and I took my dogs up from Minnesota in an old truck' is an independent clause,'driving on the Alaska Highway for eight full days, and got to a place north of a trading post named Trapper Creek.' is a dependent clause .so it is a complex sentence.
This is a simple sentence. It has one independent clause because it has only a subject “fellow and I” combined with two verb which are “took” and “got”.
This sentence contains one independent clause and tow dependent clauses. This is a complex sentence.
There is one independent clause and one dependent clause in this sentence. The common noun “fellow” and pronoun “I” functions as double-subject and “took” “got” functions as verbs in the independent clause. The pronoun “place” functions as the subject and “named” functions as the verb in the dependent clause in this sentence. Therefore, this sentence is a complex sentence.
This sentence is a simple sentence because it has the only one independent clause. The subject is “a fellow and I” and the verbs are “took” and “got”that are connected by "and"
This is an example of a simple sentence for the reason that it only has one independent clause in the whole paragraph.
This is a simple sentences, because it has only one independent clause. There are only two subject " fellow" and "I".
This is a simple sentence because it has one complete independent clause and no dependent clause. In the sentence, there are two subjects "fellow" and "I" and there are three verbs that link to the subjects. They are "took", "driving" and "got" which pointed to the subjects of the sentence.
This is a compound sentence because it has two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction, such as "and." The first independent claus is "A fellow and I took my dogs up from Minnesota in an old truck, driving on the Alaska Highway for eight full days," and the second one is "and got to a place north of a trading post named Trapper Creek."
There are one suject and two verbs in this sentence: " A fellow and I took... got..."
Because there is only one independent clause, it makes this sentence a simple sentence.
This sentence is a compound sentence because there are one dependent clause and two independent clauses “A fellow and I took my dogs up” and “got to a place north of a trading post named Trapper Creek” joined by a coordinator “and.”
This is a simple sentence because it has only one independent clause.
Consider this explanation that appears here:
This is a compound sentence because it has two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction, such as "and." The first independent claus is "A fellow and I took my dogs up from Minnesota in an old truck, driving on the Alaska Highway for eight full days," and the second one is "and got to a place north of a trading post named Trapper Creek."
What is the most important thing in this explanation that is incorrect, what should it be, and why is it so important?
There is only one complete independent clause: "fellow and I", so this is a simple sentence.
There is only one complete independent clause: "fellow and I", so this is a simple sentence.
With only one subject verb combination this is a simple sentence. “fellow” and “I” work together with “took” first and “got” by the end of the sentence. One subject verb combination in an independent clause: simple sentence.
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