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Compound sentence   /kˈɑmpaʊnd sˈɛntəns/   Listen
Compound sentence

noun
1.
A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses.





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"Compound sentence" Quotes from Famous Books



... in this way. 2. The words "or more" are erroneous, and ought to be omitted; for no one conjunction can connect more than two terms, in that consecutive order which the sense requires. Three or more simple sentences may indeed form a compound sentence; but, as they cannot be joined in a cluster, they must have two or more connectives. 3. The last clause erroneously suggests, that any or every conjunction "sometimes connects only words;" but the conjunctions which may connect only words, are not more than five, whereas those ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... called SIMPLE SENTENCES, those containing more are called COMPOUND SENTENCES. Thus puer libros legit, the boy reads books, is a Simple Sentence; but puer libros legit et epistulas scribit, the boy reads books and writes letters, is a Compound Sentence. The different members of a ...
— New Latin Grammar • Charles E. Bennett
... separate the members of a compound sentence when those members are short and closely connected ...
— Practical Grammar and Composition • Thomas Wood


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