The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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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
To indicate the omission of the verb in compound sentences having a common verb in several clauses.
From Punctuation A Primer of Information about the Marks of Punctuation and their Use Both Grammatically and Typographically by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton
Change the following compound sentences to complex sentences.
From Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Alonzo Reed
Exhibits the formation of simple and compound sentences, followed by notes on the incorporative tendency of the language, its rhetoric, figures, and idioms.
From First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881 by Various
