Analysis of the Simple Sentence

Analyse the following sentences according to the model.

Model: Clarice was waiting for me in my bedroom. (Du Maurier).

It is a simple extended sentence.

"Clarice" is the subject expressed by a proper noun;
"was waiting" is a simple verbal predicate expressed by the verb "to wait"

in the Past Continuous Tense, singular;
"for me" is a prepositional indirect object expressed by

a personal pronoun, first person, singular, in the objective

case, preceded by the preposition "for";

"in my bedroom" is an adverbial modifier of place expressed by a prepositional phrase.

1. Mary shook off her mantle with a shrug of her shoulders. (Cronin).

2. I opened the knife, and cut a length of twine, and came back into the room

again. (Du Maurier).

3. Most of the western rivers flow down a steep slope near the sea and are short and rapid. (Wide World Reader).

4. The contrast between the south-east and the north-west of Britain depends on a fundamental distinction in rock structure.

5. His heart felt swollen in his chest. (Stone).

6. The girl (Aileen) was really beautiful and much above the average intelli­gence and force. (Dreiser).

7. The idleness made him cranky .(Stone).

8. Suddenly all the differences between life and death became apparent. (Stone).

8. Miss Fulton laid her moonbeam fingers on his cheeks and smiled her sleepy smile. (Mansfield).

9. Sally found it difficult to visit anybody herself. (Prichard).

10. Next morning brought no satisfaction to the locksmith's thoughts, ... (Dickens).

11. He laughed rather bitterly. (A.Christie).

12. It was a week later. (A.Christie).

13. Up to that moment the banker had given no sign of life, ... (Stevenson).

14. The footman came at the summons, very white and nervous. (Stevenson).

15. The new-comer was a large, coarse, and very sordid personage, in garden­ing clothes, and with a watering-pot in his left hand. (Stevenson).

16. She made him no answer. (Dickens).

17. Emma had known grief, and could bear it better. (Dickens).

18. It was a curious journey. (A.Christie).

19. My father and my uncles did not seem to notice any change. (Donoso).

20. The opinion of Bacon on this subject diametrically opposed to that of the ancient philosophers. (Macaulay).

21. The woman with the snuff-stained lips turned around in her chair and looked up at the clock. (O'Connor).

22.I wanted to be invisible. (Wilkins).

23. The nurse came back, carrying a glass of chocolate milk. (Munro).

24. But for me, I don't like grievances. (Frost).

25. Some weeks later, I went back to Lawrenceville with a steel tape, borrowed a stepladder, and measured the height of the basket. (Me. Phee).

26. Ron told me all this in a quiet, almost apologetic manner. (Angell).

27. With the development of national industry during the eighteenth century, the public opinion of Europe had lost the last remnant of shame and con­science. (Du Bois).

28. Some city streets afford no opportunity to street barbarism. (Jacobs).

29. Occasionally in the kitchen Catherine heard one of their raised voices. (Berger).

30. Mr. Sweet was a diabetic and an alcoholic and a quitar player and lived down the road from us on a neglected cotton farm. (Walker).

31. My purpose in going to Walden Pond, like yours, was not to live cheaply or to live dearly there, but to transact some private business with the fewest ob­stacles. (White).

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