Build Language Skills: Grammar (Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences)
A complex sentence consists of one independent clause, which can stand by itself as a sentence, and at least one subordinate clause, which cannot stand by itself as a sentence. A compound-complex sentence consists of two or more independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses.
EXAMPLE: After Odysseus gave Telemachus the signal, Telemachus removed the weapons from the hall. (complex sentence)
EXAMPLE: Scholars, who live throughout the world, disagree about whether the epics were composed by the same person, and they also wonder about Homer’s historical existence. (compound-complex sentence)
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