The parts of speech refer to the given word classes, clauses can be dependent or independent, and sentences can be simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex.
Based on this, we can classify the sentence shown above and its composition as follows:
- The sentence is a compound sentence, as it has two independent clauses.
- These clauses do not need a complement for them to have full meaning, as they are self-sufficient.
Regarding the parts of speech, we can say that the sentence has:
- Nouns: Langston Hughes, works, poets, Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, influence, poetry, midwestern, century.
- Verbs: lived, read, used, writing.
- Adjectives: great, own.
- Pronouns: who, their, his.
- conjunctions: and.
It is important to note that the sentence shown above has incorrect punctuation. The correct punctuation would be:
"Langston Hughes, who lived from 1902 to 1967, read works by the great twentieth-century midwestern poets (Vachel Lindsay, Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg) and used their influence in writing his own poetry."
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