Read the excerpt from "lather and nothing else." i went on lathering his face. my hands began to tremble again. the man could not be aware of this, which was lucky for me. but i wished he had not come in. probably many of our men had seen him enter the shop. and with the enemy in my house i felt a certain responsibility. which word in this excerpt creates a tense mood?

In this excerpt from "Lather and Nothing Else", the word "tremble" helps creates a tense mood.

This word shows that the speaker is nervous because of the presence of the man and cannot make his hands to stop shaking. This "tremble" makes the scene tense because it shows that the man that has entered the shop is dangerous.

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.