Directions:

1. Read each sentence closely to comprehend its message.
2. In each sentence, identify all independent clauses and circle conjunctions. 
3. Identify each sentence as Simple, Compound, Complex, or Compound-Complex.
3. When finished, hover over the sentence to check your answers.

from “The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway

Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated.

They sat on the Terrace and many of the fishermen made fun of the old man and he was not angry.

The old man leaned the mast with its wrapped sail against the wall and the boy put the box and the other gear beside it.

Once there had been a tinted photograph of his wife on the wall but he had taken it down because it made him too lonely to see it and it was on the shelf in the corner under his clean shirt.

They walked down the road to the old man’s shack and all along the road, in the dark, barefoot men were moving, carrying the masts of their boats.

The boy was back now with the sardines and the two baits wrapped in a newspaper and they went down the trail to the skiff, feeling the pebbled sand under their feet, and lifted the skiff and slid her into the water.

The sun rose thinly from the sea and the old man could see the other boats, low on the water and well in toward the shore, spread out across the current.

But the bird was almost out of sight now and nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating dose beside the boat.

He loved green turtles and hawk-bills with their elegance and speed and their great value and he had a friendly contempt for the huge, stupid loggerheads, yellow in their armour-plating, strange in their love-making, and happily eating the Portuguese men-of-war with their eyes shut.

Abbreviations

• S – simple sentence     C- compound sentence   CX – complex sentence    C-Cx – compound-complex sentence
• IND – independent clause     DEP – dependent clause
• Adv – dependent adverbial clause
• Adj – dependent adjective clause
• N-S – dependent noun clause functioning as a subject
• N-OV – dependent noun clause functioning as object of a verb
• N-OP – dependent noun clause functioning as object of a preposition
• N-NC – dependent noun clause functioning as noun complement
• N-AC – dependent noun clause functioning as adjective complement