<span> Mora expresses her ideas in two different modes, spoken language and writing. She also uses two different genres, a speech and an essay. Mora delivered her speech to a small group of students and parents. Her purpose was to help students reflect on their achievements and to challenge them to celebrate cultural diversity in the future. By describing the speech in an essay, Mora was able to reach a wider audience and achieve her goal of promoting multiculturalism and diversity.</span>
I burned dinner” is a good example of a simple sentence/independent clause. ... An example of a complex sentence is this: “I burned dinner but not the cake.” 4) Compound-complex sentences contain two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause.