Sentence Consists

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Sentence (linguistics) - Classification - By Structure
... 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 ... A compound sentence consists of multiple independent clauses with no dependent clauses ... A complex sentence consists of at least one independent clause and one dependent clause ...

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