What is a Compound-Complex Sentence?
As the name suggests, a compound-complex sentence is a combination of the compound and the complex sentences. Like a compound sentence, a compound-complex sentence has two or more independent clauses, and just like a complex sentence, it also has one or more subordinate clauses.
Exercise
Make a list of the independent and subordinate clauses in each compound-complex sentence below.
Answers
1) We told her to wait in the car while we buy food, but she was gone when we came back. Independent clauses: We told her to wait in the car; she was gone Subordinate clauses: while we buy food; when we came back
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