The sentence presented above is an example of a complex sentence based on its structure. A complex sentence contains an independent clause and a dependent one. In the given the independent clause is the man was already listening to his new iPod and the dependent clause is ready to go out for his daily jog around Central Park.
Kovalf was a committee-man. He had been one for two years and he couldn't take that out of his own head. This only shows how much the Russian society used to value their titles back then and this might actually be true today.
Kovalf could never forget that he was once a committee-man, therefore to boost his own importance, even to himself, he started calling himself "Major".
