compound sentence
- noun
- /ˈkɒmpaʊnd ˈsɛntəns/
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oración compuesta
- The difference between a compound sentence and a complex sentence is not solely a logical one (it might be better to say that time affects logic and vice versa); even within compound sentences, there is a temporal difference between using conjunctions or leaving them out.
Examples
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In one compound sentence, Howard crystallizes the sadomasochistic paradox: the sadist is simultaneously "utterly dominant" and utterly dependent, an "animal who needs his mate more than anything else in the world."
Academic text (1995) -
It's called a compound sentence, where she stated two separate things in one sentence.
Blog text (12) -
Whatever you write in that space can only be one compound sentence at best.
Blog text (9) -
Separate the two halves of a compound sentence with a comma:
Blog text (3) -
Chandler relies heavily on compound sentences, and even his simple sentences tend to have compound verbs joined by and.
Academic text (2005) -
The lessons cover language arts objectives from capitalization, punctuation, and parts of speech to subject-verb agreement, compound sentences, and paragraph construction.
Academic text (2007) -
He was able to compose compound sentences and embed modifiers within his sentences.
Academic text (2004) -
The difference between a compound sentence and a complex sentence is not solely a logical one (it might be better to say that time affects logic and vice versa); even within compound sentences, there is a temporal difference between using conjunctions or leaving them out.
Academic text (1997) -
The sentences in this passage average 10.8 words per T-unit as well as 10.8 words per sentence; there are no compound sentences to increase sentence length and no subordinate clauses adding to T-unit or sentence length.
Academic text (2005) -
A compound sentence consists of two independent clauses joined by a conjunction, like 'I wanted to go for a walk, but it started to rain.'
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sentence consisting of multiple clauses' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'compound' (composed of several parts) with 'sentence' (a grammatical unit), so a learner who knows both words can infer the MWE. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common (e.g. Spanish 'oración compuesta') and follows standard adjective + noun formation, making it accessible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Compound sentence comes from the idea of joining two whole sentences into one. Imagine two complete sentences stuck together with a simple word like 'and', 'but', or 'or'; the first part, compound, means 'put together' and the second part, sentence, is a complete idea. That's why a compound sentence means two or more complete sentences joined into one.