Question

What is one characteristic of a complex sentence?

A. It has at least one dependent and one independent clause.
B. It consists of one clause covering one main idea.
C. It contains two or more simple sentences joined together.
D. It states an author's purpose for writing as well as his or her opinion on a topic

Answer 1

A simple sentence consists of only one clause. A compound sentence consists of two or more independent clauses. A complex sentence has at least one independent clause plus at least one dependent clause. A set of words with no independent clause may be an incomplete sentence, also called a sentence fragment.

Answer 2

the answer is A as in apple