Caught by the SEA

“It staggered me, stopped my breath, stopped all of me dead on the deck when I saw it.” (Page 1)
It is a complex sentence. In this sentence, there are two clauses in this sentence. One is independent clause and one is dependent clause. Therefore, this sentence is complex sentence.

“Of course, it didn't happen that smoothly.” (Page 82)
It is a simple sentence. In this sentence, there is only one independent clause. Therefore, this sentence is a simple sentence.

“I know a thing, I know this.” (Page 46)
This sentence is a compound sentence. In this sentence, there are two clauses and they are independent clauses. Therefore, this sentence is a compound sentence.

“The piece of rope I had put around my waist was not ling enough to allow me to get up to the jib so I found another loose sheet, tied it around my waist and to the mast, untied the first piece of rope, and on my hands and knees crawled out on the tiny foredeck to find that the jib came down surprisingly easily.” (Page 54)
This sentence is a compound-complex sentence. There are three independent clauses and two dependent clauses. Therefore, this sentence is a compound-complex sentence.

“But I saw the deep green light through the water pouring over me and it jarred me out of my panic-induced stupor.” (Page 45)
This sentence perplexes me because I do not know can I say “through the water pouring over me” is a dependent clause.

Caught by the SEA

"The plane crashed and broke in half near the ship, and the sharks that had been following the troopship moved to the women and children in the water, many of whom were bleeding into the water from injuries. The attack was fast, ripping, savage. Some of the people were killed and many others left with terrible wounds that I would see later when they came aboard the shop from the lifeboats. I was horrified and have written of the horror in another book, but it affected me in a way that I did not fully comprehend then, and did not know until later." (Page 2-3)

This passage strikes me because I can imagine the picture of it. It’s very scared. I hate sharks because I think they are dangerous. I can feel the feeling of those people who were in the water is. At the beginning, they were scared by the accident of the plane crash. And then after they crash in the water, they might think that they are saved. But the second attack of the sharks killed them. It is very scared, I knew it. I cannot think about I were in this situation. If I were in that situation, I think I would want to die in the plane crash first.