Grammar and Language Workbook

11. Joanna has never been beaten at chess.
12. Parker edited the yearbooks and they will be available in a few weeks.
13. I bought honey cake for after dinner tonight and I can’t wait to eat it!
14. The three main characters in the play constantly bickered, yelled, or argued.
15. Our baseball team holds the season record for most home runs.
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Lesson 25
Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences
A 
complex sentence 
contains a main clause and one or more subordinate clauses.
MAIN CLAUSE
SUBORDINATE CLAUSE
We read stories by candlelight
when the lights went out.
Do not be confused by the element the lights went out, which is a complete sentence. The
complete subordinate clause is when the lights went out, which cannot stand alone as a
sentence.
A 
compound-complex sentence 
has more than one main clause and one or more
subordinate clauses.
MAIN CLAUSE
SUBORDINATE CLAUSE
MAIN CLAUSE
We were sailing on the lake
when the storm hit,
so we immediately headed for shore.
 Exercise 1
Draw one line under the main clause and two lines under the subordinate clause.
Write C in the blank if the sentence is complex and CC if it is compound-complex.
C
Emily laughs heartily whenever she watches a Chevy Chase movie.