Question

Which of the following is a complex sentence?

Jenna is going to ride her bicycle to the park.

Whenever we make plans, Niyah always breaks them.

Ryan is going to go to college, but his twin brother Tyler is going into the Marines.

I cannot understand the story in this textbook.

Answer 1

The answer is “Ryan is going to go to college, but his twin brother Tyler is going into the Marines.” The reason is because a complex sentence has one independent clause (a sentence that can stand on its own) and a dependent clause (a clause that’s embedded in a complex sentence)