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    Activity!: Compound-Complex Sentences

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    This document defines and provides examples of complex, compound, and compound-complex sentences. A complex sentence contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause joined by a subordinator. A compound sentence joins two independent clauses. A compound-complex sentence contains at least two independent clauses and one dependent clause. The document then provides examples and an activity to identify sentence structures.

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    This document defines and provides examples of complex, compound, and compound-complex sentences. A complex sentence contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause joined by a subordinator. A compound sentence joins two independent clauses. A compound-complex sentence contains at least two independent clauses and one dependent clause. The document then provides examples and an activity to identify sentence structures.

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    Complex Sentences - A complex sentence is an independent clause joined by one or more

    dependent clauses. A dependent clause either lacks a subject or a verb or has both a subject and a
    verb that does not express a complete thought. - A complex sentence always has a subordinator
    (as, because, since, after, although, when) or relative pronouns (who, that, which).

    Examples:
    1. After eating lunch at The Cheesecake Factory, Tim went to the gym to exercise.
    ^ The independent clause is ‘Tim went to the gym to exercise.” The subordinating clause before
    it is dependent on the main, independent clause. If one were to say “after eating lunch at The
    Cheesecake Factory,” it would be an incomplete thought.
    2. Opinionated women are given disadvantages in societies that privilege male
    accomplishments.
    ^ The subject is “opinionated women” and the verb is “are given.” The first part of the sentence
    “opinionated women are given disadvantages in societies” is an independent clause that
    expresses a complete thought. The following “that privilege male accomplishments” is a relative
    clause that describes which types of societies.
    3. The woman who taught Art History 210 was fired for stealing school supplies.
    ^ The dependent clause in this sentence is “who taught Art History 210” because if removed, the
    rest of the sentence would stand as an independent clause. “Who taught Art History 210” is an
    adjective clause that provides necessary details about the subject, woman.

    Compound-Complex Sentences
    - A compound-complex sentence has two independent clauses and at least one dependent
    clause.
    Examples:
    1. After the two soccer players lost their game, they joined their other teammates for
    lunch, and they went to the movies.
    ^ If we remove the dependent clause “after the two soccer players lost their game,” we have a
    compound sentence. The dependent clause makes this sentence compound-complex.
    2. The man believed in the system, and he knew that justice would prevail after the
    murderer was sent to jail.

    Activity!

    Identify whether the sentences are simple, complex, compound or compound-complex. Please
    underline dependent clauses where it applies.

    1. Criminal justice is the structure of laws, rules and agencies designed to hold criminals
    accountable for their misdeeds and help them to restore their victims as much as possible
    2. In the United States, there is no singular criminal justice system.
    3. Many people automatically think of police officers when they hear the term, but the field
    actually encompasses much more than law enforcement.
    4. Correctional agencies are tasked with the housing, punishment and rehabilitation of law
    offenders.
    5. Prosecutors, at both the state and federal levels, are lawyers who review evidence and
    determine whether to file charges against an individual.
    6. Defense lawyers are on the opposite side of the courtroom, representing defendants who
    have been charged with a crime.
    7. “Corrections” is the term used to describe the network of agencies overseeing
    incarcerated individuals and those in rehabilitation, parole or probation.
    8. In the southern Philippines city of Cagayan de Oro suspected robbers and pickpockets
    have been paraded in public as warning to potential criminals.
    9. The government has been complaining that pedestrian violations, as well as unruly
    drivers of public buses, have been causing the monstrous traffic jams that have made
    Manila one of the most congested cities in Southeast Asia.
    10. Low salaries are named as the main cause of police corruption.

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