8.The author states that bottom trawling threatens the health of the ocean environment. Which of these sentences best helps develop and explain that claim? a. "Modern bottom trawling uses powerful ships that tow gigantic cone-shaped nets along the seafloor for the purpose of catching flounder, sole, shrimp, cod, and other marine life that lives at the bottom of the sea."

b. "Actually, bottom trawling has been ruining the ocean floor since the 1800s, when it was first introduced."

c. "Parts of the shallower continental shelves or inlets have been scraped clean, leaving behind barren wastelands of ooze."

d. "Recently some countries have banned trawling from their fishing grounds or regulated its practice."

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.

poop

explanation:

cuz its trash