com|pound-com|plex sentence

com|pound-com|plex sentence
com|pound-com|plex sentence «KOM pownd- KOM plehks»,
Grammar. a sentence made up of two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. Example: At the end the hero dies, and the heroine, who is grief-stricken, swoons.

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