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complex sentence

Noun B1 – Intermediate

A sentence made up of one main clause and at least one clause that cannot stand alone.

"'Although it was raining, we went for a walk' is a complex sentence."

Easy to confuse with a compound sentence, which joins two equally weighted main clauses instead of a main and a subordinate one.

Antonyms

simple sentence