1.)
Compound:Black smoke poured out of the chimneys of the sadness factories and hang over the city like bad news.
Complex:
2.) Black smoke came from the factories like bad news.
3.) It stood by a mournful sea full of glumfish, which were so miserable to eat that they made people belch with melancholy even though the skies were blue.
Noun: black, chimneys, factories and city.
Noun phrase: poured, sadness and bad news.
Verb: hang.
Preposition: out and over.
February 8, 2015 at 4:40 pm
You have shown that you are able to identify compound sentences, verbs and prepositions.
Targets:
1) Aim to achieve the Stage One Parse badge. You can find the criteria here:
http://achieve.community.edutronic.net/stage-one-reading/parse/
2) Revise your understanding of the term noun phrase.
3) Revise your understanding of complex sentences and then try to identify at least two of them from the given passage, or from the next section of the book that we read.