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Classifying Sentences
Label each of the following sentences simple, compound, complex
or compound-complex.
1. Records and tapes are rarely used today, but compact discs are
fairly widespread use.
2. Compact discs are often called CDs.
3. Although a CD may look like a small vinyl record, it doesn't
vl record, it doesn't work
like one.
and do
and from
4. Records have a thin groove, and different sounds are recrded as
bumps and dents in the groove's sides and floor.
5. The sound is produced when a needle moves up and do and fro
side to side along the groove.
6. A CD, however, is covered with microscopic pits that make a
digital code.
7. When you play a CD, a laser bounces off the CD and re che little
pits, and the code is translated into sound.
8. In spite of the cost of CDs, they have many advantages.
9. They produce extraordinary sound, and because a needis never tous
them, they last and last.
10. In spite of the advantages of CDs and other digital formats, some
music lovers would still rather listen to vinyl records.

absolutism the political belief that one ruler should hold all of the power within the boundaries of a country.

1.   in sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. the speaker says “then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.   through his defeat of finding words to describe his love, he shows his love for her.

2.   instead of describing how perfect his love is or comparing her to other beautiful things, he says she is average and there is nothing special about her.   at the last 2 lines of the poem, the volta changes the poem by saying that even though his love is average in beauty, his love for her is special and unique. so instead of praising her throughout the whole poem, he contrasts her average characteristics with his special love for her.

3.   the beloved asked the speaker to describe how he feels about her. she begins to describe what she feels but "drop the torch" and says that she can't do it because the words "hid in me out of reach." the the speaker says "nay, let the silence of my womanhood command my woman-love to thy belief" and that her silence will have to be the answer to his question.

here's some tricks. write on a book that you have read and really enjoyed. first, start by writing down basic event in the book. have your first paragraph be an intro explaining like the author, the reason the book was written if known, and other backround info like that. paragraph two explain what happens in the first few chapters and the signifigance it had. then for paragraph 3, do the same thing but for the middle. i'm pretty sure you get the point for paragraph 4. just rap things up and explain the call to action. for the final paragragh (paragraph 5) , explain your views on the book, the message, ect. tip: something that might is to go onto cliff notes or something and read the anaylisis of each chapter.

some books i recommend;

diary of anne frank

lord of the flies