During, on, and about are prepositional phrases. The subject is 'we' and the verb is 'listened'
It begins in the courtroom
Emily Dickinson, a great American poet, lived a quiet life.
Explanation:
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts into a leading family with strong links to its community. Emily Dickinson, considered one of America's greatest poets, is also well recognized for her unusual life of self-imposed social solitude. Living a life of simplicity and solitude, she yet wrote poetry of great power; asking the nature of salvation and death, with at times an almost mantric quality.
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The mall was filled with people bustling by, searching for the best deals and dragging their screaming kids along, just trying to get their errands done and the whole place was just a big chaotic mess.
Rainsford was on a beautiful, tropical island smelling sweetly of flowers and ocean water with the sound of seagulls fill the air around him.
The general had a very large and somewhat over the top abode to call his own, though he saw it as no more than a place to hang his hat, as he was rarely home.
Adam hid from an unknown aggressor in the Forrest, surrounded by the dense, dark blanket of night time, hoping to himself this would help to conceal him and keep him safe.
Rainsford, after a long day, collapsed into the general's bed and let himself slip away into a deep, deep sleep.
Answer:
The answers are:
- Compound sentence
- Complex sentence
- Simple sentence
- Complex sentence
- Compound sentence
- Compound complex sentence
- Complex sentence
- Complex sentence.
Explanation:
I'm going to start with the simple sentences, which are literally the simplest: Simple sentences are comporse by one independent clause that has a verb an an object --an independent clause means that it can go alone with no need of further info--. A Compound sentence is that one which is "linked" with a conjuction such as: <em>and, for, but, so, </em>and it's composed by two independent clauses. A Complex sentence contain an independent clause and at least one dependent clause --which is the opposite of independent, this one cannot go alone as it'll be "incomplete--. And finally, a compound complex sentence is that one which is basically a "compound sentence" but with a dependent clause.