You send a call for help. (Simple sentence)
Subject: You
Verb: send
Nobody knows who you are. (Simple sentence)
Subject: Nobody
Verb: knows
Direct object: who you are
Nobody knows what to do. (Simple sentence)
Subject: Nobody
Verb: knows
Direct object: what to do
Those who placed you there are all long gone. (Simple sentence)
Subject: Those who placed you there
Verb: are
Predicate complement: all long gone
No hero takes initiative, initiative having been drained by administrative bitching and black hints. (Complex sentence)
Main clause: No hero takes initiative
Subject: No hero
Verb: takes
Direct object: initiative
Subordinate clause: initiative having been drained by administrative bitching and black hints
Subject: initiative
Verb: drained
Object: administrative bitching and black hints
Come on deck, and it's a demonstration I'll be giving you before the day's much older. (Compound sentence)
Clause 1: Come on deck
Verb: Come
Clause 2: it's a demonstration I'll be giving you before the day's much older
Subject: it
Verb: is
Direct object: demonstration
Relative clause: I'll be giving you before the day's much older
Subject: I
Verb: be giving
Direct object: you
A collection of similar pods floated in orbit Leo counted. (Compound sentence)
Clause 1: A collection of similar pods floated in orbit
Subject: A collection of similar pods
Verb: floated
Prepositional phrase: in orbit
Clause 2: Leo counted
Subject: Leo
Verb: counted
One, two, three... six and the one arriving made seven. (Compound sentence)
Clause 1: One, two, three... six
Subject: One, two, three... six
Verb: (implied)
Clause 2: the one arriving made seven
Subject: the one arriving
Verb: made
Direct object: seven
Expenses rise, as they always do. (Simple sentence)
Subject: Expenses
Verb: rise
Adverbial clause: as they always do
I must keep my temper. Why was I such a fool as to give him a racing punt? (Complex sentence)
Sentence 1: I must keep my temper
Subject: I
Verb: must keep
Direct object: my temper
Sentence 2: Why was I such a fool as to give him a racing punt?
Subject: I
Verb: was
Predicate complement: such a fool
Subordinate clause: as to give him a racing punt
Subordinating conjunction: as
Subject: I
Verb: to give
Direct object: him a racing punt
