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Laborious Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

What would you call it, a sentence or an independent clause, please

Hi there teachers,

What would you call the following group of words, a sentence or an independent clause?

-She ran for two miles.

  

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Laborious She ran for two miles. It is both a sentence and an independent clause terminated by ending punctuation. A simple sentence consists of an independent clause, but an independent clause can be used in a complex, compound, or compound-complex sentence.

  • Laborious She ran for two miles.
  • It is both a sentence and an independent clause terminated by ending punctuation.
  • A simple sentence consists of an independent clause, but an independent clause can be used in a complex, compound, or compound-complex sentence.
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LaboriousShe ran for two miles.

It is both a sentence and an independent clause terminated by ending punctuation.

A simple sentence consists of an independent clause, but an independent clause can be used in a complex, compound, or compound-complex sentence.

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