A complex sentence is a sentence that consists of an independent clause and at least one dependent clause. An independent clause is a clause that can stand on its own (as opposed to a dependent clause).
Compound sentences, on the other hand, must contain at least two independent clauses. Simple sentence is a sentence which contains only one clause.
The sentence: '<em>If you are in line early, you’ll be sure to get the best tickets' </em>is a complex sentence, as it contains a dependent clause '<em>If you are in line early' </em>and an independent clause '<em>you’ll be sure to get the best tickets.'</em>
There is also a subordinating conjunction 'if', which links a dependent clause to an independent clause.
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