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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Comlex sentence

"awake when i'm asleep because my dreams are bursting at the seem" is this is a comlex or compound sentence?
  

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Awake me when I'm asleep because my dreams are bursting at the seams. It is complex. seams' are both subordinate clauses.

  • Awake me when I'm asleep because my dreams are bursting at the seams.
  • It is complex.
  • seams' are both subordinate clauses.
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Awake me when I'm asleep because my dreams are bursting at the seams.

It is complex. 'When I'm asleep...seams' and 'because...seams' are both subordinate clauses.
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Hi

May I say (pedantically) that you can't analyse a sentence if it's not whole..

I have: Fireflies, Owl City..

- It's hard to say that I'd rather stay

Awake when I'm asleep

Because my dreams are bursting at the seams

It is complex because it is implicit reported speech

Just as a side question - why do we want to know whether a sen

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