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compound-complex sentence — com′pound com′plex sen′tence n. gram. a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses, as The lightning flashed (independent clause) and the rain fell (independent clause) as he entered the house… … From formal English to slang
compound-complex sentence — /kom pownd kom pleks/ a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses, as The lightning flashed (independent clause) and the rain fell (independent clause) as he entered the house (dependent clause) … Useful english dictionary
Complex sentence — A complex sentence is a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. Examples I ate the meal that you cooked. (I ate the meal is an independent clause and that you cooked is a relative clause.) I enjoyed the apple pie… … Wikipedia
compound-complex — adjective Date: 1923 of a sentence having two or more main clauses and one or more subordinate clauses … New Collegiate Dictionary
compound-complex — adjective of a sentence : having more than one main clause and at least one subordinate clause (as he told me to leave and I left as soon as I could) … Useful english dictionary
Sentence (linguistics) — In the field of linguistics, a sentence is an expression in natural language, and often defined to indicate a grammatical unit consisting of one or more words that generally bear minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it.… … Wikipedia
Complex-compound sentence — A complex compound sentence or compound complex sentence is a sentence with at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses (also known as subordinate clauses). Example The dog lived in the backyard, but the cat, who knew he… … Wikipedia
compound — compound1 compoundable, adj. compoundedness, n. compounder, n. adj. /kom pownd, kom pownd /; n. /kom pownd/; v. /keuhm pownd , kom pownd/, adj. 1. composed of two or more parts, elements, or ingredients: Soap is a compound substance. 2 … Universalium
sentence — 1. Many users of this book will have been taught that a sentence is a group of words that makes complete sense, contains a main verb, and when written begins with a capital letter and ends with a full stop (or a question mark if it is a question… … Modern English usage
Compound sentence (linguistics) — In the English language, a compound sentence is composed of at least two independent clauses. It does not require a dependent clause. The clauses are joined by a coordinating conjunction (with or without a comma), a correlative conjunction (with… … Wikipedia
