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Could you please, give me method or explanation how understand a such long sentences:

" Still he was sure that ladies must be different from men down there and they had spent a long purple summer dusk discussing it, swatting mosquitoes and watching a scratch baseball game in the lot of the moving van company across the street from Burr's"

How is one to determine main sentences and subordinate clause?

Thank in advance.

[CP]

Try breaking it up where the conjunctions and punctuation and prepositions occur:

"Still[,] he was sure that ladies must be different from men down there[,]

and they had spent a long purple summer dusk discussing it,

swatting mosquitoes

and watching a scratch baseball game

in the lot of the moving van company

across the street from Burr's."

He was sure men and women must have different parts,

and he and his friend had talked about it all summer.

While talking, they also had to swat mosquitos, and they watched baseball games.

The baseball games took place across the street from Burr's.
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[Gera]

To CP Thanks for explanation.