Hi there teachers,
What would you call the following group of words, a sentence or an independent clause?
-She ran for two miles.
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.