Is it a compound or complex sentence?
Is it a compound or complex sentence? Can anyone divide this sentence into constituting sentences?
I could only conjecture, while he was dragging me in by both hands, that
(knowing my habits) he had come to the cottage to make sure of
meeting me that night, and that he had some news to tell of an
unusually agreeable kind.
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I (subject) could only conjecture, while he (subject) was dragging me in by both hands (predicate, dependent clause), that (knowing my habits) he (subject) had come to the cottage to make sure of meeting me that night (predicate) – independent clause ('I could only conjecture, that he had come to the cottage to make sure of meeting me that night') and
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