Answer: Compound
THE 4 SENTENCE
STRUCTURES
<span>The simple sentence is one of the four basic
sentence structures. The other structures are the compound sentence, the complex sentence, and the compound-complex sentence.</span>
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<span>Simple
sentence:
I purchased a tour guide and a travel journal at the bookstore.</span>
</span>
a simple sentence is a sentence with only one independent clause.
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<span>Compound
sentence:
I purchased a tour guide and a travel journal, but the bookstore was out
of maps.</span>
</span>
a compound sentence can be thought of
as two (or more) simple sentences joined by a conjunction and/or an
appropriate mark of punctuation.
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<span>Complex
sentence: Because
I was planning to visit Tokyo, I purchased a tour guide and a level
journal.</span>
</span>
a complex sentence is a sentence that contains an independent clause (or main clause) and at least one dependent clause. Put another way, a complex sentence is made up of a main
clause with one or more dependent clauses joined to it with an appropriate conjunction or pronoun.
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<span>Compound-complex
sentence: While
Mary waited, I purchased a tour guide and a travel journal at the
bookstore, and then the two of us went to dinner. </span>
</span>
a compound-complex sentence is a sentence with two or
more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause<span>. Also known as a complex-compound
sentence.</span>
Identify the following sentence as simple, compound, complex, or
compound-complex.
<span>The store is usually open by now, but the owners may be on
vacation, or maybe they're just late today.</span>
