PART A: Which statement identifies the central idea of the text? A Park has struggled with how best to make her children, who enjoy freedom in the U. K., understand her violent and oppressive life in North Korea. B While Park is happy that she has been able to provide such an easy life for her children, she often wishes she could have had the same experience. C Explaining her violent and oppressive past to her children only dredges it up, and Park would prefer to move on with her life in the U. K. D Park hopes her story will inspire her children to take action and one day challenge the oppressive government in North Korea.

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.

what book are we talking about here