Sentence analysis

Key
Hello - Simple sentence                              Hello - Declarative
Hello - Compound sentence                        Hello - Imperative
Hello - Complex sentence                           Hello - Exclamatory
                                                                    Hello - Interrogative


Task 1

‘In unthinking panic, he leapt up to peer over the rail and at that moment the Raider rolled and tipped him over the side into the dark. His basket of needles followed him. The ship rose uplike a cliff face above him and he knew there was no one on deck. No one to see him fall or hear his cries. His only chance was to grab the rail as it came plunging down towards him slowly, slowly like a slow-motion film.’

Text 2:

‘At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough coloured lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold in. In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.
By seven o’clock the orchestra has arrived, no thin five-piece affair, but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos, and low and high drums. The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors, and hair bobbed in strange new ways, and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.’