Complex Compound Sentence

A Complex Compound Sentence is a Natural Language Sentence that is both a Complex Sentence and Compound Sentence.

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• Example(s):
  • “I walked home, but Jim, who has a car, drove instead.”
• See: Simple Sentence, Complex Sentence, Compound Sentence.

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References

• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentence_(linguistics)
  • One traditional scheme for classifying English sentences is by the number and types of finite clauses:
    • A simple sentence consists of a single independent clause with no dependent clauses.
    • A compound sentence consists of multiple independent clauses with no dependent clauses. These clauses are joined together using conjunctions, punctuation, or both.
    • A complex sentence consists of one or more independent clauses with at least one dependent clause.
    • A complex-compound sentence (or compound-complex sentence) consists of multiple independent clauses, at least one of which has at least one dependent clause.
• (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex-compound_sentence
  • A sentence with at least two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses (which can also be called subordinate clause) is referred to as a complex-compound sentence. Sometimes also called a compound-complex sentence.
  • Examples
    • “The cat lived in the backyard, but the dog, who knew he was superior, lived inside the house.”
    • “Though the movie had been tested on the market, The Last Shadow did not fare well in the United States, but it did develop a huge following in Europe, which usually does not go for this movie genre.”
    • “Gene thought that Finny wanted venerability, but Finny, who did not care, thought that he was just being a friend.”

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