Read the excerpts from "A Retrieved Reformation" by O. Henry. Identify each excerpt as supporting one of these themes: "people can change for the better" or "people are not able to change themselves.""Brace up, and make a man ofyourself. You're not a badfellow at heart. Stop crackingsafes, and live straight.""That's Dandy Jim Valentine'sautograph. He's resumed business."Jimmy Valentine looked intoher eyes, forgot what he was, and became another man."It's the only life, Billy—thestraight one. I wouldn't toucha dollar of another man's moneynow for a million.""Going to marry the banker'sdaughter are you, Jimmy?"said Ben to himself, softly."Well, I don't know!""Guess you're mistaken, Mr. Spencer," he said. "Don'tbelieve I recognize you. Yourbuggy's waiting for you, ain't it?"

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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.