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All right Ap english language shmoop er's we've got a

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new section for you all about mark twain and you

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know the gilded age first question The syntax of the

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second sentence is best described as containing what So let's

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skim mark plan and child only when i'm on the

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first call you're going in the gilded age struck by

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what they saw the rampant greed and speculative frenzy the

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marketplace with corruption purveying national values A satyr of society's

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serious problems they felt had been veiled by a thin

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coating of gold This sentence is a party and every

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clauses invited There are five of them total and each

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builds off the last which is classic hypo taxes if

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dependent and independent And klaus sound more like greek than

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grammatical terms Well feel free to stop by shmoop headquarters

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for a quick refresher Well traditionally the syntax of the

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sentence will be the subject than the verb then the

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object which is the pattern this sense follows So get

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rid of b as a whole It has a subject

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and verb so it can't be considered a fragment Get

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rid of c And since the clauses are offset with

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commas well it's not a run on either So get

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rid of d and hyperbole is when the author uses

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gross exaggeration and isn't used to describe syntax So get

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rid of these The right answer here yeah it's a

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hypo taxes or hypo taxis as they call it in 00:01:21.164 --> [endTime] you berland

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