sentences.

Simple:

Horatio Nelson, the famous English naval hero, once was supposed to have said:” Men and ships rot in port.”

Horatio Nelson, the famous English naval hero, once was supposed to have said:” Men and ships rot in port.”: Sub + verb combination Independent.


Caught by the sea, Page 33

Compound:

The boat slammed, tore, ripped sideways across the water. She was knocked flat. Without instrumentation I had no way of knowing the speed but I suspect that the beginning of the blow was more than six knots.

The boat slammed, tore, ripped sideways across the water: Independent.

She was knocked flat: Independent

Without instrumentation I had no way of knowing the speed but I suspect that the beginning of the blow was more than six knots: Independent, coordinator, independent.

Caught by the sea, Page 42.


Complex:

Now I’m amazed to remember how much I missed the sea, because it hadn’t been a real part of my life between the ages of ten and seventeen, when I enlisted.

Now I’m amazed to remember how much I missed the sea: Independent.

…because it hadn’t been a real part of my life between the ages of ten and seventeen, when I enlisted: Subordinator, dependent.


Caught by the sea, Page 4.




Compound-complex.:

I didn’t care. I was completely enraptured by what had happened to me. I lowered the mainsail and sat peacefully drifting around in circles, feeling at home.

I didn’t care: Independent.

I was completely enraptured by what had happened to me: Independent.

I lowered the mainsail: Independent. And: coordinator. Sat peacefully drifting around in circles: Dependent.


Caught by the sea. Page 35.

Sea feelings.

"But this, this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath, as it had stopped when I first saw the pacific".

Read about Gary felling this voyage in the way that he did is exiting and make me think that not everybody enjoys sailing like him not only sailing but the sea can be seen as an other thing that he loves and it seems like he has to be there in order to make his life and his whole existence complete that is what Gary transmits through this passage.