Read the stanza from "the rainy day":
how does the structure of "the rainy
day" affect the poem?
my life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
it rains, and the wind is never weary;
my thoughts still cling to the
mouldering past,
but the hopes of youth fall thick in
the blast,
and the days are dark and dreary.
the rhyme and meter are both
lighthearted and bouncy,
i
the speaker
communicate that life
shouldn't be taken too
seriously.
the rhyme and meter are
jazzy and uneven, the
speaker communicate the
unpredictably of life.
the rhyme and meter are
harsh and sharp, the
sneaker communicato his

onto a large boat, and mark the water level that the boat sinks to. then, take the elephant out and put a bunch of marked weights onto the boat until it reaches the same water level. add up the masses of the weights to get the weight of the elephant.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.