Homework Help: English

Posted by Hayden on Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 1:04am.

The noise from the ducks in the pond was soothing.

I have to Underline each independent clause and subordinate clause twice then tell if the sentence is simple, compound, complex, compound-complex

1.The noise from the ducks was soothing=indep clause
in the pond=subor clause
complex sentence

or would this just be simple sentence

English - Writeacher, Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 5:17am
This is a simple sentence. There is only one subject-verb construction here.

The noise was soothing = independent clause

from the ducks = prepositional phrase
in the pond = prepositional phrase
NOTE: There is no verb in there!!

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