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What is the structure of this sentence?

Hiram Bingham taught Latin American history at Yale University from 1907 to 1915.
a. compound
b. simple
c. compound-complex
d. complex

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User Danvil
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It's a very long sentence with a lot of information, but it is still only a simple sentence (option b): it has only one verb (taught). In order to qualify as a complex or compound-complex sentence, it would have to have at least 2 phrases, each with a different verb.
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