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check your understanding
a. identify each of the following sentences as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.
1. i recently received a barometer as a present.
2.
the miles of air above our heads has weight, and it presses down.
3.
the pressure of that weight is what causes air pressure.
4.
at high altitudes, less air presses down, so the air pressure is less there.
5.
i have not figured out how meteorologists use air pressure to predict the weather, but i am
researching that.
b.
next, write a simple sentence, a compound sentence, a complex sentence, and a compound-complex
sentence of your own.

true

explanation:

what sentence

explanation:

the correct answer is d. in john paston's letter written friday, 14, 1476, he expresses his fear that he may have to go to war.

indeed, although the black death was ravaging europe, the pastons were relatively safe from it due to their social status as they were part of the landed gentry. it is clear that the vast majority of the victims of the pandemic were the poor. the reason why he is weary of having to go to war is because at the particular time england was also devastated by the war of the roses and paston, being a courtesan was inevitably involved.

i think the correct answer is b. phrase