How does the last sentence of this excerpt from H. G. Wells's The Time Machine affect the reader? As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world-masi
whole secret of these delicious people. Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population hadsucceeded too
their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary. That would account for the abandoned ruins. Very simple was my
and plausible enough- as most wrong theories are!
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It encourages readers to always look for the simplest explanation.
• B.
It makes the reader aware that the Time Traveller will probably meet a tragic end.
It hints to the reader that unexpected changes in the Time Traveller's view may follow.
It enables the reader to identify the Time Traveller's motives for traveling to the future.
It makes the reader aware of the possibility that the Time Traveller may be lying,
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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.