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... Compound and Complex Sentences Learn the difference between compound and complex sentences . You make a compound sentence by linking together simple sentences with a coordinating conjunction ( and , but , or , nor , yet ) or with a ...
... Compound and Complex Sentences Learn the difference between compound and complex sentences . You make a compound sentence by linking together simple sentences with a coordinating conjunction ( and , but , or , nor , yet ) or with a ...
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... compound represents the strung- along way of thinking ; the complex represents the periodic . Avoid simple - minded compounds . Essentially the compound sentence is simple - minded , a set of clauses on a string - a child's description ...
... compound represents the strung- along way of thinking ; the complex represents the periodic . Avoid simple - minded compounds . Essentially the compound sentence is simple - minded , a set of clauses on a string - a child's description ...
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... compounds . But the unfamiliar compound is hard on the eye , and the hyphens come back in - until another burst of editorial housekeeping . The oldest and most useful compounds have coalesced from their original two words , first ...
... compounds . But the unfamiliar compound is hard on the eye , and the hyphens come back in - until another burst of editorial housekeeping . The oldest and most useful compounds have coalesced from their original two words , first ...
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From Subject to Thesis | 23 |
Basic Structure | 33 |
Other Arrangements | 43 |
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