- Exercise in Identifying Sentences by Structure - Sentence-
Imitation Exercise: Complex Sentences - Basic Sentence
Structures - Main Clause - Subordinate Clause - Subordinating
Conjunction Examples and Observations: - "He was like a cock who
thought the sun had risen to hear him crow." (George Eliot, Adam
Bede) - "If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step
to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away."
(Henry David Thoreau) - "[D]ependent clauses cannot be sentences
on their own. They depend on an independent clause to support
them. The independent clause in a complex sentence carries the
main meaning, but either clause may come first. When the
dependent clause comes first, it is always followed by a comma."
(A. Robert Young and Ann O. Strauch, Nitty Gritty Grammar:
Sentence Essentials for Writers. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006) -
"Most of the sentences we use in writing or in continuous speech
are complex. Earlier in this chap