The sentence, “As Jake was reading the email from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention”, is a complex sentence since it has both an independent clause and a dependent clause.
<h2>Further Explanation
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A sentence is a group of words that are arranged in a certain order in order to communicate a certain message.
<h3>Types of sentences
</h3><h3>Complex sentences
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- These are sentences that contain both an independent clause and a dependent clause.
- The sentence can either start with the dependent or independent clause depending on punctuation marks and the subordinating conjunctions.
- For Example: As Jake was reading the email from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention.
<h3>Simple sentence
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- These are sentences that contain only one independent clause.
- The sentence may long or short but as a long as it has one independent clause then it is a simple sentence.
<h3>Compound sentence
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- This is a sentence that has two independent clauses joined together using punctuation marks like semicolon, or coma and a conjunction such as or, and, but, etc.
- Compound sentences can be broken down into two complete sentences, with each sentence having its own subject and verb.
Keywords: Independent clause, dependent clause, complex sentence
<h3>Learn more about
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Level: High school
Subject: English
Topic: Sentences and clauses
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