Question

Identify the following sentence as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. Its capital, Maputo, is the city where the port is located; it is linked by rail with South Africa, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe. A. complex B. compound-complex C. simple D. compound

Answer 1

The anser is D: compound.  A compound sentence is when two or more independent clauses that have related ideas are joined with a coordenator (for, and or but) or a semicolon. Independent clauses can stand alone as a complete thought. They are not dependent of one another to express a complete thought, but they join similar ideas.