What details from the narration show that rainsford is a rational individual who does well in moments of danger? check all that apply.

The right answers are: “A certain cool-headedness had come to him” and “doggedly he swam in that direction, swimming with slow, deliberate strokes, conserving his strength”. He is in a difficult situation, not the first time, because the lights of the yacht ended up markedly collapse and progressively vanishing fireflies; then they were cleaned out altogether by the night. Instead of crying and get mad to see if anybody could hear him, he decided to yell that is more effective because it makes more noise.

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.