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Kunsusuki Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

is it correct?

My classmate wrote this sentence as a compound -complex one : People read books and analyse thoughts in order to learn about life. I found it uncorrect so i've made a change : people read books, and they analyse thoughts ;in order , to know how to face life's struggles. is it correct now?
  

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No, you have not made it a compound-complex sentence; you have just made it worse. It was a simple sentence with a compound verb and you made it a compound sentence. ]

— Mister Micawber

  • No, you have not made it a compound-complex sentence; you have just made it worse.
  • It was a simple sentence with a compound verb and you made it a compound sentence.
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No, you have not made it a compound-complex sentence; you have just made it worse. It was a simple sentence with a compound verb and you made it a compound sentence. Here is a compound-complex sentence (minimum 2 independent clauses and one dependent clause):

[People read books] and [they analyse thoughts (because they have nothing better to do).]
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Ok. Now i get it, but we can use "in order to" to connect an independent sentence with a dependent one it may work no? i mean do we always find an infinitive after it ?
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'In order to' is a phrasal preposition, not a subordinating conjunction, but because of 'to' it is always followed by a bare infinitive, yes.
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Ok. Thank you so much Emotion: smile
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