Grammar

Unpacking complex sentences

Categories 

(1) main clause with subject, object,complement and adverbial clauses.

(2) subordinate clauses with adverbial, relative and reported clauses.

Examples:

1. My flying dreams were believable as a landscape by Dail, so real that I would awake with a sudden shock, a breathless sense of having tumbled like lcarus from the sky and caught myself on the soft bed just in time. 

2.  We even found a stand-in for a villain in Sheldon Fein, the sallow mamma’s boy on our block who was left out of the boys’ games because he cried whenever anybody tagged him and always managed to fall down and skin his fat knees.