Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

In the text below, identify each clause by its Main Verb Phrase:

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness.

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

In the text below, identify each clause by its Main Verb Phrase:

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness.

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

In the text below, identify each clause by its Main Verb Phrase:

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness.

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

In the text below, identify each clause by its Main Verb Phrase:

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness.

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

In the text below, identify each clause by its Main Verb Phrase:

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness.

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

In the text below, identify each clause by its Main Verb Phrase:

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness.

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

In the text below, identify each clause by its Main Verb Phrase:

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness.

There are five clauses in this passage.

Identify the clauses by Clause Type:

1. The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us2. the sea and the sky were welded together3. the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the

tide seemed to stand still4. A haze rested on the low shores5. that ran out to sea

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

Identify the clauses by Clause Type:

1. The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us

Form: INDEPENDENT CLAUSEFunction: INDEPENDENT CLAUSE

stretched - intransitive verb (followed by optional adverbial phrase)

Clause Type I

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

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2. the sea and the sky were welded together

Form: INDEPENDENT CLAUSEFunction: INDEPENDENT CLAUSE

were welded - intransitive verb (passive structure - followed by optional adverbial)

Clause Type I

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

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3. the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still

Form: INDEPENDENT CLAUSEFunction: INDEPENDENT CLAUSE

seemed - transitive verb (followed by nominal infinitive phrase - direct object)

Clause Type V

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

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4. A haze rested on the low shores

Form: INDEPENDENT CLAUSEFunction: INDEPENDENT CLAUSE

rested - intransitive verb (followed by optional adverbial phrase)

Clause Type I

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

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5. that ran out to sea

Form: RELATIVE CLAUSE - DEPENDENTFunction: ADJECTIVAL (modifies SHORES)

ran - intransitive verb (followed by optional adverbial phrases)

Clause Type I

Clause Types from The Heart of Darkness

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