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Kozmol Posted 10 years ago
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Is the following a compound-complex sentence?:
The police questioned everyone here, and poor Alejandro they held for two days, probably guessing his vulnerability.
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The police questioned everyone here, and poor Alejandro they held for two days, probably guessing his vulnerability.
Many thanks
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It is not a correctly written sentence. The police questioned everyone here, and they held poor Alejandro for two days, probably guessing his vulnerability. That is a compound sentence.
- It is not a correctly written sentence.
- The police questioned everyone here, and they held poor Alejandro for two days, probably guessing his vulnerability.
- That is a compound sentence.
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It is not a correctly written sentence.
The police questioned everyone here, and they held poor Alejandro for two days, probably guessing his vulnerability.
That is a compound sentence.
The police questioned everyone here, and they held poor Alejandro for two days, probably guessing his vulnerability.
That is a compound sentence.
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KozmolIs the following a compound-complex sentence?If you are studying a method of analysis that calls "guessing his vulnerability" a participle clause (and therefore a subordinate clause), then yes, it's compound-complex because it has two independent clauses and a dependent (subordinate) clause.
If that participle construction is not considered a s
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Yes thank you. It is written this way deliberately to front focus 'poor Alejandro'. It is from a literary text.
Many thanks for your insights.
Many thanks for your insights.
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Oh thanks for this. I found it confusing but I very much like your explanation.
Greatly appreciated.
Kozmol
Greatly appreciated.
Kozmol
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