How does the author's decision to include the flashback in Paragraph 3 affect the pacing of this story? (A) By increasing the pace of the action of the rescue team, the author builds curiosity about the people on the boat that are being rescued.

(B) The narrator's description of the rescue he witnessed delays the anticipated action of the current mission and adds suspense to the story.

(C) The pace of the rescue in the flashback provides the reader an example of how quickly the impending rescue will take.

(D) By providing details of the rescue in the flashback, the author can skip over the details of the narrator's rescue and quickly come to the resolution​

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.

i think continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they

stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay; ten thousand saw

i at glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.