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What is a complex sentence?

What is a complex sentence? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (grammar) a sentence that contains an independent clause as well as one or more dependent clauses, such as a relative clause, an adverbial clause, or a noun clause.
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Brief general introduction to the language, followed by more complex sentence formation, with questions and answers.
A complex sentence consists of an independent clause and a subordinate clause.
Nonfinite verbs do not carry g-n-p markers, and they head subordinate clauses that precede the main clause in a complex sentence.
In fact, the entire sentence is a complex sentence, because it is made up of both independent and dependent clauses.
Once the various complex sentence patterns are acquired, progress is seen as children use them more often and more effectively.
Avoid complex sentence structures, ambiguous phrases, extra clauses, and sentence fragments, and unnecessary words.

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