Select all compound sentences in this extract. I peered out of the window at the lengthening shadows of the trees. We had been on the road for six hours, but it felt like sixty given the appalling surface. I was now worried that we wouldn't arrive before nightfall and my fears weren't helped by the driver's eccentric behaviour. Although it was dark, he still hadn't turned the van's lights on. |Through my translator I enquired why, yet I immediately wished I hadn't. There weren't any. Fearing that we might all have to spend a night in the jungle, I ventured another question beloved of children everywhere. Are we nearly there yet? Just one more hour was the reply. I checked my watch. Sunset was in 10 minutes. Fifty minutes on an unmade trail at 40 miles per hour. In the jungle. In the dark. Just great.

We had been on the road for six hours, but it felt like sixty given the appalling surface.

I was now worried that we wouldn't arrive before nightfall, and my fears weren't helped by the driver's eccentric behaviour.

Through my translator I enquired why, yet I immediately wished I hadn't.

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idk

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the intellectual community is a place like a university where people with high marks, or original thought or an outstanding interest in something gather. they take classes together. they discuss things. they argue sometimes, and not always in a friendly way. but if they argue, it is because they are passionate about something, and there is nothing the matter with that.

lately i've been hearing rumors that it is not the way it was when i went to school. the one thing all schools used to have was free speech. the 1st amendment rights were sacred. now i'm hearing they are not. students can be reported and disciplined for giving an off the wall opinion.

that is shameful.

intellectual ideas are meant to be discussed. they are meant to be chewed up and worked on. that is the primary responsibility of every intellectual community. if that is not the way it is, then that is not a school to go to.

social media, in my opinion, and this is just an opinion. i wouldn't take it too seriously, complicates everything to do with human communication. you can want to share things and others feel they have the right to be very critical or sarcastic or mean about what you share. lack of respect is an immeasurable intolerable condition and social media abounds with that sort of thing.

one of the things i really like about is how careful people are because they must have some idea that the mods are exactly what the word says they are. they police this board very well, and what is so remarkable about them is that they are no older than the average grade 12 student.

my hat goes off to them (which means i respect them quite a bit).