Answer:
I think this is awkwardly written, but it *IS* a complex/compound sentence:
As a French woman, she owned her own clothing store, and the clothing store sold a lot of socks.
It can be written more eloquently as a complex sentence:
As the proprietor of a clothing store, the French woman sold a lot of socks.
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Because of the high number of butterfly cases, Harry had to attend school from home using Google Meets, so he was very bored.
Explanation:
the art or science of caring for the stomach either medically or gastronomically.
Some details that the text show that the excerpt was written in the past and not the present is, the story uses a lot of had and was which could be a huge clue that the text was written in the past sense its using past tense vocabulary. for example, in the excerpt it talks about how the children had a kind and merry housemaid. If it was present tense then the sentence would be, they have a kind and merry housemaid because it would mean that the house maid is with them right now and if it was future tense then it would be they will have a kind and merry housemaid because they don't have the maid yet and you would be using future tense words to indicate it hasn't happened yet. I hope this makes sense and helps.
