Question

Identify the choice that best describes the sentence.

Galileo the first astronomer to use a telescope, confirmed the theory that the earth and planets circle the sun.

A- Simple.
B- Compound.
C- Complex.
D- Compound- complex.

Answer 1

C- Complex

The sentence is a complex sentence because it contains two predicates. These two predicates are: "confirmed" (an independent clause) and "circle" (a dependent clause). A complex sentence refers to any sentence that contains at least one dependent or subordinate clause.