Question

I need help with english

Answer 1

THe sentence is: Trevor Plouffe covered third base, but the ball went over his head. Find the Independent and dependent clauses, the verb, the noun, and identify if it's a simple, compound, complex, or compound/complex sentence.

Answer 2

Okay so I'll split this into each part to make it easier.

Answer 3

Independent clauses:
\(\color{gray}{\sf{\text{An independent clause is a group of words that contains a subject and verb}\\\text{and expresses a complete thought. An independent clause is a sentence.}}}\)

From this, we can look to the sentence itself to see where the sentence can stand by itself, normally, sentences separate independent and dependent clauses with a comma. That gives us two parts: "Trevor Plouffe covered third base," and "but the ball went over his head."
The independent clause is the one that can stand alone and make a sentence.
That being said, "Trevor Plouffe covered third base" is the only one that makes a complete sentence.

Answer 4

Dependent clauses:
\(\color{gray}{\sf{\text{A dependent clause is a group of words that contains a subject and verb but}\\\text{does not express a complete thought. A dependent clause cannot be a sentence.}}}\)

For this one, it's just what isn't able to be a complete sentence, "but the ball went over his head."

Answer 5

Verbs:
\(\color{gray}{\sf{\text{a word used to describe an action, state, or occurrence, and forming the main}\\\text{part of the predicate of a sentence, such as hear, become, happen.}}}\)

The action of the sentence, something like "he ran down the stairs," or "she jumped the fence."
That given, Trevor Plouffe was "covering" third base, which would make your verb "covered." On top of this though, the ball was going over Tevor's head. Which would make "went" a verb as well.

Answer 6

Nouns:
\(\color{gray}{\sf{\text{a word (other than a pronoun) used to identify any of a class of people, places,}\\\text{or things ( common noun ), or to name a particular one of these ( proper noun ).}}}\)

The nouns would be the people or the things, in this case they would be Trevor (pronoun), and the ball (noun).

Answer 7

Sentence type:
\(\color{gray}{\sf{\text{- Simple sentence: A sentence with 1 clause, and consisting of a subject and predicate.}}}\)
\(\color{gray}{\sf{\text{- Compound sentence: A sentence with 1 or more subjects or predicates.}}}\)
\(\color{gray}{\sf{\text{- Complex sentence: A sentence containing 1 or more subordinate clauses}}}\)
\(\color{gray}{\sf{\text{- Compound/Complex sentence: A sentence that contains 1 or more subjects or}\\\text{predicates, and 1 or more subordinate clauses.}}}\)

These are each of your sentence types. Now, we identified that this sentence has both a dependent clause, and an independent clause. That would make the sentence either a Complex or Compound/Complex sentence.
To figure out which it is, you need to ask yourself if the sentence has 1 or more subjects/predicates.
Let's look at the our verbs section, we have 2 verbs that have a predicate to them, making this sentence a compound/complex sentence.

Answer 8

Sourcing:

Independent and dependent clauses source: Independent and Dependent Clauses - Purdue
Verbs source: Google ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Nouns source: Google ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sentence Types source: Google ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Answer 9

This sentence is a compound sentence. You can tell by looking for commas and words that extend the sentence. Words like, but, and, because, and also are words that continue the sentence.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

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