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Types of sentences

Classifying sentences by purpose

Declarative sentences

Exclamatory sentences

Imperative sentences

Interrogative sentences

Interrogative sentences by tone

Interrogative sentences by changing word order

Classifying sentences by structure

Simple sentences

Compound sentences

Complex sentences

Compound-complex sentences

Compound-complex sentences

Well, from the sentence types described so far, you should be able to guess what this one is. Compound-complex sentences contain more than one independent clause and at least one dependent clause:

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