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composite sentence

noun

Definitions

  1. A sentence that contains multiple clauses, whether independent (coordinated) or dependent…

    A sentence that contains multiple clauses, whether independent (coordinated) or dependent (subordinated); a compound or complex sentence.

    • When, however, we come to composite sentences (that is, sentences consisting of two or more clauses), we have to deal with the notions of main clause, head clause, and subordinate clause.
    • The composite sentence, in its two forms compound and complex, is relatively straightforward, though rather different from the simple sentence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for composite sentence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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