A few days ago
Anonymous

GRAMMAR HELP == Please read & tell if it has any subordinate clauses, simple sentences, compound, complex sent

I basically am trying to analyze the sentence structure of this… anything you know will help, i’m so lost!

“That bloody mongrel Walcott charge her. Y’see, he buy a pig of my wife four or five year ago, and the pig died soon after. So he come dancin’ in for his money back. So my Marthda says to him, ‘Walcott, if you haven’t the wit to feed a pic properly, you’ll not live to own many,’ she says. Now he goes to court and claims that from that day to this he cannot keep a pig alive for more than four weeks because my Martha bewitch them with her books!”

THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE!

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A few days ago
JeeVee

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This seems to be some kind of English dialect?

Dialect and dialogue however still have syntax.

Bear in mind that passages of dialogue that seem to have each statement as a separate sentence would be one paragraph and less setnences if written as reported speech.

Try changing the dialouge into an indirect reported narrative and you will see the subordinate clauses?

Where does each statement start?

Dont confuse phrases with clauses?

So isnt followed by that so is not a conjunction.

Look for words like that, this, because, so, and if and now, pronouns and adverbs that often start clauses!

Look for linking words.

Excuse me giving the method rather than the answer but I see too many posters giving people the answers for points and I think its more important to show you the method!

Hope the hints help now and in the future!

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5 years ago
Anonymous
A compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses. Your example is a compound sentence. “But” is the coordinating conjunction. A complex sentence contains at least one independent clause and one dependent (i.e., subordinate) clause. A subordinating conjunction can be used to join these two types of clauses. This is a list of common subordinating conjunctions used in the English language: •after •although •as •because •before •even •if •in order that •just as •now •once •provided •rather than •since •so that •supposing •than •that •though •til •unless •until •when •whenever •where •whether •which •while •who •whoever •why
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A few days ago
RE
1. simple sentence

2. compound sentence

3. simple sentence

4. subordinate clauses

5. compound sentence with complex part

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