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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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Simple, compound and complex

Hello everyone. It's a practice before exam.. I'm worried. I have here the following text, and I find it too difficult to decide which sentence is simple/compound/complex. Can anyone help me please? Thank you!!


Pesca's face and manner, on the evening when we confronted each

other at my mother's gate, were more than sufficient to inform me

that something extraordinary had happened. It was quite useless,

however, to ask him for an immediate explanation. I could only

conjecture, while he was dragging me in by both hands, that

(knowing my habits) he had come to the cottage to make sure of

meeting me that night, and that he had some news to tell of an

unusually agreeable kind.


We both bounced into the parlour in a highly abrupt and

undignified manner. My mother sat by the open window laughing and

fanning herself. Pesca was one of her especial favourites and his

wildest eccentricities were always pardonable in her eyes. Poor

dear soul! from the first moment when she found out that the

little Professor was deeply and gratefully attached to her son,

she opened her heart to him unreservedly, and took all his

puzzling foreign peculiarities for granted, without so much as

attempting to understand any one of them.


My sister Sarah, with all the advantages of youth, was, strangely

enough, less pliable. She did full justice to Pesca's excellent

qualities of heart; but she could not accept him implicitly, as my

mother accepted him, for my sake. Her insular notions of

propriety rose in perpetual revolt against Pesca's constitutional

contempt for appearances; and she was always more or less

undisguisedly astonished at her mother's familiarity with the

eccentric little foreigner. I have observed, not only in my

sister's case, but in the instances of others, that we of the

young generation are nothing like so hearty and so impulsive as

some of our elders. I constantly see old people flushed and

excited by the prospect of some anticipated pleasure which

altogether fails to ruffle the tranquillity of their serene

grandchildren. Are we, I wonder, quite such genuine boys and

girls now as our seniors were in their time? Has the great advance

in education taken rather too long a stride; and are we in these

modern days, just the least trifle in the world too well brought

up?

  

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anonymous I find it too difficult to decide which sentence is simple/compound/complex. Can anyone help me please?

You need to make an effort first, and then we will check your answers.

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Pesca's face and manner, on the evening when we confronted each

other at my mother's gate, were more than sufficient to inform me

that something extraordinary had happened. (complex)

It was quite useless, however, to ask him for an immediate explanation. (compound)

I could only conjecture, while he was dragging me in by both hands, that

(knowing my habits) he had

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