Choose the sentence type of the following sentence. When her computer crashed, Tabitha lost all her photos, but the rest of her files were okay.
A) Simple
B) Compound
C) Complex
D) Compound-complex

Question

Choose the sentence type of the following sentence. When her computer crashed, Tabitha lost all her photos, but the rest of her files were okay.​
A) ​Simple
B) ​Compound
C) ​Complex
D) ​Compound-complex

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The sentence is compound-complex because it has two independent clauses ("Tabitha lost all her photos" and "the rest of her files were okay") connected by a coordinating conjunction ("but"), and one dependent clause ("When her computer crashed").

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