Write a description on the following topic. Imagine that you were on a ship in the middle of the ocean. What does your ship look like? How does the ocean look? What does the sky look like above you? What do you see, hear, feel, smell, and taste as you look about?

I looked out across the deck, letting splashes from the waves bounce onto my face. I looked down in awe at the white foam rushing against the ship, the waves rocking it back and forth. I turned around and hurried to the other side of the deck, my footsteps muffled against the sound of seagulls shrieking. I saw the harbor we had just parted from getting smaller and smaller as the boat swam out deeper into the ocean. I tilted my head down and noticed fish jumping in and out of the water. Their fins stood up as they manuevered around currents. I grinned, happy to be in the place I loved most. The beautiful, navy blue ocean, the house of so many plants and animals, protecting secrets buried deep into the sand.

it was the battle of midway (june 4-7 1942), in which was an american decisive victory against the japanese navy. americans lost one aircraft carrier, one destroyer and 150 planes. japan lost 4 aircraft carriers, 1 heavy cruiser and 248 planes. american casualties were 307 and japanese casualties were 3057. japan never recovered from its loses and after midway the americans started getting the upper hand in the pacific war.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."