Q1 : There was once, in the country of Alifbay (complex) (so I’m told) sadness was actually manufacture, (compound)
Q2 The black smoke came throw the chimneys of the sad factory and go to the city to tell bad news
noun: chimneys
noun phrase : black smoke poured out of the chimneys
verb : hung
preposition : hung over the city like bad news
EXT : In the North of the sad city stood mighty factories in which ( he was told ) sadness was actually manufactured, packed and send all over the world, which never seemed to get enough for it.

February 2, 2015 at 5:30 pm
Diego,
You can successfully identify nouns and verbs.
Targets:
1) Revise definition of prepositions and noun phrases
2) Copy out the entire sentence when trying to identify complex and compound sentences.
3) Aim for the Stage One Parse badge
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