Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Assignment #8 (B)
Two seconds’ warning, at the most, and he was there, on top of them, dogs screaming, one blow for Anne, and Brian could see where her body hit, then David running for the only hope he had, the rifle in the cabin, the bear’s prints wheeling and digging as the went after David and the rest in the cabin…” (Brian’s Hunt p.77)
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Interesting choice.
Two seconds’ warning, at the most, and he was there, on top of them, dogs screaming, one blow for Anne, and Brian could see where her body hit, then David running for the only hope he had, the rifle in the cabin, the bear’s prints wheeling and digging as they went after David and the rest in the cabin…
I think it is a compond-complex sentence because there are three independent clauses and one dependent. The first independent clause is "he was there." The second independent clause is "Brian could see where her body hit" which in between the first and the second independent clauses there is a coodinator that connect the two together. The three independent clause is "David running for the only hope he had, the rifle in the cabin, the bear’s prints wheeling and digging." The dependent clause in this sentence is "as they went after David and the rest in the cabin…"
I'm quite confuse with this sentence. this sentence is either compound-complex or fragment. The author should not use coordinating conjunction on this sentence, "Two seconds' warning, and he was there," because there is only one subject-verb combination: "he was."
I can see there are two independent clauses and two dependent clauses.
The independent clauses are "he was there" and "Brian could see" and they are connected by using coordinating conjunction "he was there..., and Brian could see."
The dependent clauses are "where her body hit" and "the only hope he had."
There are four subject-verb combinations in this sentence: "he was," "Brian could see," "body hit" and "he had."
This is a compound-complex sentence because it has three independent clauses and two dependent clauses.
The first independent clause is “he was there, on top of them, dogs screaming, one blow for Anne.” The pronoun “he” functions as the subject and “was” functions as the verb.
The second independent clause is “Brian could see.” The proper noun “Brian” functions as the subject and “could see” functions as the verb. The coordinator between the first independent clause and second independent clause is “and.”
The third independent clause is “as he went after David and the rest in the cabin…” The pronoun “he” functions as the subject and “went after” functions as the verb. The coordinator is “as.”
The first dependent clause is “where her body hit, then David running for the only hope.” The common noun “body” functions as the subject and “hit” functions as the verb. The subordinator is “where.”
The second dependent clause is “he had, the rifle in the cabin, the bear’s prints wheeling and digging.” The pronoun “he” functions as the subject and “had” functions as the verb. The subordinator between the first dependent clause and second dependent clause is “that” which appears as an invisible subordinator.
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