A compound sentence is a sentence that has at least two independent clauses joined by a comma, semicolon or conjunction. An independent clause is a clause that has a subject and verb and forms a complete thought.
An example of a compound sentence is, 'This house is too expensive, and that house is too small.' This sentence is a compound sentence because it has two independent clauses, 'This house is too expensive' and 'that house is too small' separated by a comma and the conjunction 'and.'
The right answer for the question that is being asked and shown above is that: "D. that the Dark will break the Circle before it can be formed." The statement that is not something the Rider says to scare Will at the Stanton house on Christmas morning is that the Dark will break the Circle before it can be formed<span>
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The Stage Manager overlaps past and future when he describes the Gibbs:
"Doc Gibbs died in 1930." (future) Then he says: "Mrs. Gibbs died first--long time ago, in fact." (past).
The second example is when he talks about the cornerstone they're putting in the bank so that people "a thousand years from now" can find it. He discusses the ancient Babylonians and then the people of a thousand years from the present.
If a dependent clause comes before an independent clause, the type of punctuation required is a comma.
Example : When I saw the destruction, I cried.
