Identify each of the following sentences, if correct, as simple (S), compound (C), complex (CX), or compound-complex(CCX). If incorrect, identify the error as a run-on (RO), comma splice (CS) or fragment (F) Write your answer in the blank.
1. ______ The sky in the west was full of pale-yellow light, Louise stood outside with her hands in the pockets of Leon’s green army jacket.
2. ______ Which was too big for her.
3. ______ The funeral was over the old men had taken their candles and medicine bags and were gone.
4. ______She waited until the body was laid into the pickup before she said anything to Leon.
5. ______ She touched his arm, and he noticed that her hands were still dusty from the corn meal that she had sprinkled around the old man.
6. ______ When she spoke, Leon could not hear her.
7. ______ Leon stared at the new moccasins that Teofilo had made for the ceremonial dances in the summer.
8. ______ They were nearly hidden by the red blanket.
9. ______ It was getting colder, the wind pushed gray dust down the narrow pueblo road.
10. ______ Louise stood there shivering and watched his face.
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