"And now here he lay, awake, knowing only that a strange noise had cut him out of sleep but not what sound or where it had come from and he opened his mouth to clear his ears and held his breath and waited, listening." (p.27)
This is a compound sentence since it has two independent clauses. The first independent clause is “And now here he lay, awake, knowing”, where “he” is the subject and “lay” is the verb, and the second independent clause is “he opened his mouth to clear his ears”, where “he” is the subject and “opened” is the verb. These clauses have a coordinator conjunction which is “and.”
this is a compound-complex sentence because it has two independent clauses ( and now...only, and he opened...listening) and three dependent clauses( that a strange....come from)
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This is a compound sentence since it has two independent clauses. The first independent clause is “And now here he lay, awake, knowing”, where “he” is the subject and “lay” is the verb, and the second independent clause is “he opened his mouth to clear his ears”, where “he” is the subject and “opened” is the verb. These clauses have a coordinator conjunction which is “and.”
This is a compound sentence, because it have two indenpendent clauses: " And now here he lay, awake, knowing, "he opened his mouth to clear his ears".
this is a compound-complex sentence because it has two independent clauses ( and now...only, and he opened...listening) and three dependent clauses( that a strange....come from)
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