Question

For this assignment, type at least 200 words demonstrating the effectiveness of verbals, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.
Here is your goal for this lesson:

Write an original prose composition using phrases, clauses, verbals, and various sentence types

You may write about anything you would like: a short narrative telling about something you did or would like to do; a short work of fiction; a summary of a book or movie; or anything you can think of. The narrative must be cohesive (it must make sense). You must include and mark at least one correct example of each of the following:

a prepositional phrase used as an adverb (prep=adv)
a prepositional phrase used as an adjective (prep=adj)
a gerund phrase (np)
a participial phrase (part)
an infinitive used as an adverb (inf=adv)
an infinitive used as an adjective (inf=adj)
an infinitive used as a noun (inf=n)
an appositive (app)
a compound sentence (compound)
a compound-complex sentence (compound-complex)

Answer 1

It was a sunny afternoon in late October (prep=adv). Muriel and I had decided to check properties for sale in the countryside. We had always enjoyed toying with the idea of finding (np) the perfect place to live (inf=adj). So we got into the car to start as soon as possible (inf=adv). After driving (part) for hours we reached the spot, a stretch of fields forgotten in the middle of nowhere. (prep=adj). We had been told about this lonely place by my uncle Bob, the hermit (app).To be standing there in the absolute silence (inf=n) of the place was unnerving. We could hear the blades of grass rustling against each other and smell the strong stench of cows grazing nearby. (compound)Never had we been away from the city or felt the isolation of a rural area for this reason we rushed back to the car and drove back to our apartment as fast as we could. (compound-complex).