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a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause

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(4) Compound Complex sentence: The Canute-like frustration of politicians at their inability to control the tax affairs of the multinationals is out of proportion to the benefit they bring to the economy - or to the sums at stake which set against the country's vast indebtedness can only be symbolic.
Year 6: Investigate how complex sentences can be used in a variety of ways to elaborate, extend and explain ideas (ACELA1522)
the NOK method, and the DNOK and FNOK formalisms can be applied to the so-called "complex sentences", i.e.
The first few paragraphs of The glass egg by Kerry Greenwood include a variety of simple, compound and complex sentences. As I read various stories, I would sometimes pause and discuss the sentences with the students.
* combine short, simple sentences to create compound, complex, and compound, complex sentences; and
Another example of a complex sentence in the maths problem is "This would be the total surface area of the cone, if it were closed." To understand this sentence, which ostensibly provides the summary for calculating the area of a cone, the reader must understand:
Check whether the sentence is Complex sentence or Simple Sentence [Initialize.] Set ICOUNT = 1, NCOUNT = 1, CCOUNT = 1, ILOC, NLOC, CLOC.
Language comprehension was assessed with a Simple and Complex Sentence test, with patients' performance being altered in both types of sentence.
Chapter 10 is a description pf complex sentences. They are analyzed on the basis of the criteria embedding/non-embedding relation and dependent/independent relation which the members of a complex sentence exhibit.
Thus, to what extent a complex sentence inherits the presupposition of a constituent clause crucially depends on the semantic properties of the embedding main predicate and on the degree of embedding.
* 'We felt that way about the complex sentence because it even gave people who had been racist the chance to change.
However, the passive voice is often far more verbose, thus adding to a more complex sentence structure in written legal English and obscuring the immediate clarity of the statements.
"With damage to the upper pathway, the opposite is true; patients name things quite well, they know the words, they can understand them, they can remember them, but when it comes to figuring out the meaning of a complex sentence, they are going to fail."
The prayers spoken by the presider, many now rendered as a single, long, complex sentence in English to reflect Latin sentence structure, will be exceedingly difficult to proclaim in a way that the assembly can understand.
As the results of the analysis in the present paper show below, most of the errors occur in unsuccessfully intended complex sentence structures.
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