Structures in Poetry:Question Read this line from the poem.
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Neighbors
(keep your bikes
on your own side)
by Michael Spooner
The space in this line is most likely used to
lect one:
Somepeople like to
put up a fence
a hickety rickety white painted pickety
(keep your bikes
on your own side)
FENCE
O
show that two people are talking
D
show how fences separate people
to tell the street
where the street should be
to tell the neighbors
that side's you /
this side's me.
D
о
suggest the speaker is confused
OD
irritate the reader

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.

question

will give

you will find groups such as germans, acadians, irish/scots, french, spanish, anglo/americans, african americans, and native americans. you are looking for the contributions that each of these groups provided to the settlement of louisiana.

lawrence   quinn is the main antagonist of the 2003 live action film adaptation of the cat in the hat. he is the waldens' pompous neighbor whose goal is to marry joan walden for her wealth and get rid of her son conrad by sending him to military school.