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Definition of Complex sentence
1. Noun. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause.
Specialized synonyms: Loose Sentence, Periodic Sentence
Terms within: Independent Clause, Main Clause, Coordinate Clause, Dependent Clause, Subordinate Clause
Definition of Complex sentence
1. Noun. (grammar) a sentence that contains an independent clause as well as one or more dependent clauses, joined by a sub-ordinating conjunction such as 'however'. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Complex Sentence
Literary usage of Complex sentence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Grammar of the German Language: Designed for a Thoro and Practical Study by George Oliver Curme (1922)
"The complex sentence. Subordinate Clauses. 268. 1. Grammatical Function. A complex
sentence consists of ..."
2. An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley (1913)
"Each of these two clauses is itself complex, for each could stand by itself as
a complex sentence. Similarly, a complex and ..."
3. A Grammar Containing the Etymology and Syntax of the English Language: For by William Swinton (1885)
"The simple sentence and the complex sentence agree in this, that each contains
one, and only one, leading proposition; they differ in this, that the complex ..."
4. An Introduction to the Study of Language by Leonard Bloomfield (1914)
"The complex sentence. This crystallization of word- groups is psychologically
most natural. Once a certain expression has been heard and used, it is, ..."
5. A School Manual of English Composition: For Advanced Grammar Grades, and for by William Swinton (1905)
"ANALYSIS OF THE complex sentence. I. THEORY OF THE complex sentence. 2511—The
simple sentence and the complex sentence agree in this, that each contains one ..."
6. English Grammar Simplified: Its Study Made Easy by James Champlin Fernald (1916)
"THE complex sentence When two or more simple sentences, only one of which is
independent, while the other or others are dependent, are combined, ..."
7. A Working Grammar of the English Language: Designed to Give in Simple by James Champlin Fernald (1917)
"Subordinate clauses in a complex sentence are joined to the principal clause by
... The sentence is then a complex sentence, showing by its form that the ..."
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