Read these lines from canto xxii: a. demon armies marching with dante b. demons torturing sinners c. frogs covering the ground d. rivers of hell converging so here on all sides these sinners squatted, but the instant barbariccia stepped forward, they dived back underneath the boiling pitch. i saw, and still my heart shudders with it, one lag behind — just as sometimes one frog will stay back while another leaps below — and graffiacane, the closest to him, hooked him up by his pitch-knotted hair and hauled him out — he looked just like an otter! what is dante describing here?

B. Demons torturing sinners.

Canto XXII of Inferno places Dante in the Eight Circle of Hell. He encounters demons such as Grafficane, Barbariccia, Rubicante and Cagnazzo. He describes the demons as torturing the sinners in a boiling pitch. In this excerpt, Dante compares the sinners being tortured by the demons to frogs and otters, because of how hey move in the water.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.  

1: indirect

2: indirect

3: direct

4: indirect

5: direct

explanation: