In my opinion, the correct answer is <span>C. As Jake was reading the email from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention.
A complex sentence has one independent clause (that can stand on its own), and two or more dependent (subordinate) clauses. In this case, the independent clause is "the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention". The dependent one starts with a subordinator "as". The other options are compound sentences - made of two or more independent clauses which are connected with coordinators (but, and).</span>
The book centers around an unlucky teenage boy named Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile corrections facility in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft.
