Question

Which of the following is a complex sentence?

Answer 1

The sentence, “As Jake was reading the email from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention”, is a complex sentence since it has both an independent clause and a dependent clause.

Further Explanation

A sentence is a group of words that are arranged in a certain order in order to communicate a certain message.

Types of sentences

Complex sentences  

• These are sentences that contain both an independent clause and a dependent clause.  
• The sentence can either start with the dependent or independent clause depending on punctuation marks and the subordinating conjunctions.
• For Example: As Jake was reading the email from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention.

Simple sentence  

• These are sentences that contain only one independent clause.
• The sentence may long or short but as a long as it has one independent clause then it is a simple sentence.  

Compound sentence  

• This is a sentence that has two independent clauses joined together using punctuation marks like semicolon, or coma and a conjunction such as or, and, but, etc.
• Compound sentences can be broken down into two complete sentences, with each sentence having its own subject and verb.

Keywords: Independent clause, dependent clause, complex sentence

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Level: High school

Subject: English

Topic: Sentences and clauses

Answer 2

As Jake was reading the email from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention.

Further Explanation:

The sentences which contain more than two or at least two dependent sentences and their independent sentences are mixed together with each other by subordinating conjunctions are known as Complex sentences. The words which are mostly used in order to make a sentence dependent or independent can be although, until, after, when, etc. If we talk about independent clause in a complex sentence, it is a phrase which will make sense in a sentence on its own and on the other hand, a dependent clause will not form any sentence on its own and when independent clause and a dependent clause appear in the same sentence then it will create a complex sentence.  

In the given statement of the question, which says, “As Jake was reading the email from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention”.

Here the second part of the sentence, “the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention” is a sentence in itself.  

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: Complex Sentences

Subject: English

Keywords:

Complex sentences, compound sentences, independent clause, dependent clause, subject, verb, valid, until, when, while, after.