compound sentences

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of compound sentence.
  compound sentence

  noun

  a sentence containing two or more coordinate independent clauses, usually joined by one or more conjunctions, but no dependent clause, as The lightning flashed (independent clause) and (conjunction) the rain fell (independent clause).

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compound sentences

By using or refraining from using these elements, we wrote simple sentences or compound sentences or compound-complex sentences.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 10, 2016

But we moderates generally suffer from too much righteousness, too little populist grit and too many compound sentences.

From Time ● Jan. 17, 2013

Illustrate and explain the difference between simple, complex, and compound sentences.

From Practical Grammar and Composition by Thomas Wood

The clauses of compound sentences are less closely united—a comma, a semicolon, or a colon is needed to divide them.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Brainerd Kellogg

Compound Sentences.—A semicolon is used in compound sentences to separate independent clauses that have no connective between.

From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer

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