A complex compound sentence consists of two independent clauses simple sentences and one or more dependent clauses.. • The job applicant who was interviewed this morning couldn’t speak E
Trang 1A complex compound sentence consists of two independent clauses (simple sentences) and one or
more dependent clauses
• I didn’t study very hard when I was young, but I passed my exams without any problems.
• The job applicant who was interviewed this morning couldn’t speak English very well, so he didn’t get the job (that) he was applying for.
5 Now use your imagination and write some more complex compound sentences.
What can you see in the pictures? Describe using complex compound sentences.
1 Tony and Tina do judo every Saturday and they sometimes go swimming
on Monday
2 Tony started doing judo when he was six but Tina, who started two
on Monday as well if their parents have time to drive them to the pool.
years later, beats him regularly when she’s having a good day
they can
3 Both Tony and Tina like sports a lot and they practice whenever
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