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Students can refer to the following books to study and understand the topic of complex sentences in English:

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Author

Simple, Compound & Complex Sentences

Aamir Shaikh

"English Grammar Revision B1: 120 Sentence Transformation Exercises"

Jacqueline Melvin

Diagramming Complex Sentences: A visual Approach to English Grammar

Chandrasekar, Mira Saraswathi, A, Ramachandran

 

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Following are the examples of complex sentences:

After you work is done/join us at the restaurant for the dinner.

Dependent clause/Independent clause

Although she was tired/but/she went for shopping.

Dependent clause/conjunction/Independent clause

Because/ it was hot/we did not go out.

Subordinating conj

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·       Understand the sentence structure. Every sentence needs to have a dependent clause, independent clause and a conjunction, to be correct and complete.

·       Use the right punctuation as per the requirement.

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When a sentence contains one or more Dependent clauses along with multiple independent clauses, it becomes Compound Complex Sentences. Ex: Because it was raining, the children stayed inside, and they played board games.

Remember, the complex sentence only has one independent clause and one or more de

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What are Complex sentences?

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A Complex Sentence is a combination of an independent clause (which can stand alone as a sentence) with one or more dependent clauses (which cannot stand alone). These clauses are linked using subordinating conjunctions like "because," "although," "while," "since," or relative pronouns like "who," "

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