Humbug's Grammar - Exercises

All of the following are compound-complex sentences or complex sentences. Identify main clauses by underlining them and dependent (subordinate) clauses by circling them

Awaking in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore, and sitting up in bed to get his thoughts together, Scrooge had no occasion to be told that the bell was again upon the stroke of One. (There are three subordinate clauses)
Finding that he turned uncomfortably cold when he began to wonder which of his curtains this new spectre would draw back, he put them every one aside with his own hands; and lying down again, established a sharp look-out all round the bed. (There are three subordinate clauses)
He was not the dogged Scrooge he had been, and though the Spirit's eyes were clear and kind, he did not like to meet them.
Its feet, observable beneath the ample folds of the garment, were also bare, and on its head it wore no other covering than a holly wreath that was set here and there with shining icicles.
I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working now.
The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content. (Two independent clauses; two subordinate clauses).
Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family.
The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's being a man of business, and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favor when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income. (Two independent clauses; three subordinate clauses).
He may rail at Christmas till he dies, but he can't help thinking better of it.
Scrooge's niece was not one of the blind-man's buff party, but she was made comfortable with a large chair and a footstool, in a snug corner, where the Ghost and Scrooge were close behind her.
There might have been twenty people there, young and old, but they all played, and so did Scrooge, for, wholly forgetting in the interest he had in what was going on, that his voice made no sound in their ears, he sometimes came out with his guess quite loud, and very often guessed quite right, too. (Two independent clauses; three subordinate clauses).

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