"Because of Winn Dixie" takes place in the present or past.
First of all, you need to know what a compound sentence is. It is a sentence which contains at least two independent clauses. Having that in mind, here is an example of such a sentence containing words sharecropper and windswept:
<em>The sharecropper worked in the windswept fields the entire day and then went home to eat some food.</em>
There are two independent clauses here: 1. the sharecropper worked in the windswept fields + and + 2. then (he) went home to eat some food.
She returned to school and earned good grades to graduate.
The article "Life in 999: A Grim Struggle" indicates life as it was amid the Anglo-Saxon period. The article, from Time magazine, portrays the setting of the terrains as a "gathering of untamed backwoods, endless supply of trees and brush and brier, dim and unwelcoming." Readers of Beowulf can perceive how this grabs on the setting of the epic story. The setting of the Anglo-Saxon was huge.