The trouble is that Whitman is talking through his hat, but the poor soul didn’t know any better.
All these galaxies are hurrying outward from each other in a vast universal expansion that began fifteen billion years ago, when all the matter in the universe was in a tiny sphere that exploded in the hugest conceivable shatter to form the galaxies.
Which is a complex sentence, which is a compound sentence? Or are they not either?
thanks
Top answer
The first is compound-complex. The second is complex.
— Mister Micawber
The first is compound-complex.
The second is complex.
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