- “Because he was so small, Stuart was often hard to find around the hou” E.B White – Stuart Little
- “I’ve never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.” George Eliot – The Mill on the Floss
- “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” John Steinbeck — East of Eden
- A complex sentence is, of course, just one type of sentence we can use in writing.
- Complex Sentence
- As we have mentioned, a complex sentence is one with an independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
- Example:
- Whenever he was lonely, Lance called his mother.
- Compound Sentence
- A compound sentence is one with two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction (for, but, and, nor, or, yet, so).
- Example:
- I was born in the United States, yet I consider myself Canadian.
A Simple Sentence - A Simple Sentence
- A simple sentence is one with only one independent clause and no dependent clauses.
- Example:
- David drives carefully to work in the morning.
- A Compound-Complex Sentence
- A compound-complex sentence is one with at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.
- Jim doesn’t drink beer because he has a gluten allergy, so he tends to drink wine most weekends.
True or false? A complex sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
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A. True
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B. False
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True or false? A dependent clause could stand alone as a sentence.
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A. True
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B. False
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