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Complex Sentences
A complex sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent
clause.
The two clauses will be joined by a subordinator (although, because, since,
as) or relative pronoun (who, which, that).
Although it was raining, I walked to work.
In this example, “although” is the subordinator and thus “Although it was rain-
ing” is a dependent clause.
In a complex sentence, you can put the dependent clause first or second. It
really doesn’t matter; however, you should be careful with the punctuation. If the
dependent clause goes first in a sentence, it should be followed by a comma. If
the independent clause comes first, no comma is needed:
Although it was raining, I walked to work.
I walked to work although it was raining.
The formula looks like this:
independent clause + dependent clause
or
dependent clause + comma + independent clause
= complex
sentence
You can drop the dependent clause, but you cannot drop the independent
one.
I walked to work.
Although it was raining.
The first example is now a
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