"Insurance premiums have increased,and cost-of-living raises have not kept up" is a ________ sentence.

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B)A compound sentence has two main clauses that express two or more independent but related thoughts of equal importance,usually joined by "and," "but," or "or." In effect,a compound sentence is a merger of two or more simple sentences (independent clauses)that are related.A simple sentence has one main clause.A complex sentence has one main thought and one or more subordinate,related thoughts (dependent clauses that cannot stand alone as valid sentences).Independent and dependent clauses are usually separated by a comma.A compound-complex sentence has two main clauses,at least one of which contains a subordinate clause.

"Insurance Premiums Have Increased,and Cost-Of-Living Raises Have Not Kept Up