The compound sentence is a combination of two or more simple or complex sentences. While the complex sentence has only one main clause, the compound has two or more independent clauses making statements, questions, or commands. Hence the definition,-
A compound sentence is one which contains two or more independent clauses.
This leaves room for any number of subordinate clauses in a compound sentence: the requirement is simply that it have at least two independent clauses.
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(1) Simple sentences united:"He is a palace of sweet sounds and sights; he dilates; he is twice a man; he walks with arms akimbo; he soliloquizes."
(2) Simple with complex:"The trees of the forest, the waving grass, and the peeping flowers have grown intelligent; and he almost fears to trust them with the secret which they seem to invite."
(3) Complex with complex:"The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
Types of connection
Semantic relations Types of connection
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Copulative
(соединительный) Time passed, (and) she came to no conclusion. I neither played any records, northe guests asked me to.
Enumerative The sky was dark, (and) the air was damp, (and) the streets were wet. ---
Causal
(причинный) We cannot go upstairs, we are too tired. We cannot go upstairs, for we are too tired.
Resultative
(consequential)(косвенный) The breeze was fresh, (and) the yacht sailed on well. The breeze was fresh, so the yacht sailed on well.
Adversative
(противительный) --- It was early afternoon, but it was very dark outside.
Disjunctive
(разделительный) --- Either you travel as a gentleman,or you travel alone.
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