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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Compound-complex sentence?
I have two questions about the following sentence:
He bought the gum because he wanted something sweet but the lollipop was too expensive.
1. Would you classify the sentence as compound-complex?
2. Would you insert a comma after sweet? (I guess I want to know whether the last clause is subordinate even without a second because.)
A similar case:
He said that the project failed and the commission would have to submit a new proposal.
The simplest solution is to insert that after and, but what if every other sentence had this structure? (Assume you cannot eliminate the speech tag.) Could the sentence stand as it is? If the sentence were much longer and more complex, would you always insert the conjunction that?
He bought the gum because he wanted something sweet but the lollipop was too expensive.
1. Would you classify the sentence as compound-complex?
2. Would you insert a comma after sweet? (I guess I want to know whether the last clause is subordinate even without a second because.)
A similar case:
He said that the project failed and the commission would have to submit a new proposal.
The simplest solution is to insert that after and, but what if every other sentence had this structure? (Assume you cannot eliminate the speech tag.) Could the sentence stand as it is? If the sentence were much longer and more complex, would you always insert the conjunction that?
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