Question

In the following sentence, identify the CORRECT Sentence Structure (i.e., Simple, Compound, Complex, Compound-Complex) and EXPLAIN your answer (i.e., Clause or Clauses, Subject-Verb Agreement, Prepositional Phrase, etc.):
Chopin in The Story of an Hour explains to the reader; in order for anyone to live in marriage, he or she must be "Free, free, free!"

Answer 1

Answer:

The sentence structure of this example is Compound-Complex.

Explanation:

When we want to determine a sentence structure, we should analyze how many clauses it has. Clauses can be dependent or independent. Compound-Complex structure includes two or more independent clauses and at least one dependent clause. Let's see our example:

Chopin in The Story of an Hour explains to the reader; in order for anyone to live in marriage, he or she must be "Free, free, free!"

Chopin in The Story of an Hour explains to the reader - independent clause

in order for anyone to live in marriage - dependent clause

he or she must be "Free, free, free!" - independent clause

As we have 2 independent and 1 dependent clause, this sentence is a compound-complex sentence.