Below are examples of complex sentences. In each
example, the independent clause is shaded. The dependent clause is unshaded.
- Stay in the bath until the phone rings.
- The car swerved to miss Mrs
Jackson, who
had slipped off the pavement.
- Both the cockroach and the bird
would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
(Joseph Wood Krutch, 1893-1970)
- Leave while you can.
- When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
After I came home, I made dinner.
(dependent clause: "After I came home")
(indpendent clause: I made dinner)
We visited the museum before it closed.
(dependent clause: before it closed.)
(independent clause: We visited the museum)
Complex sentences are often formed by putting these words at the beginning of the dependent clause: as, as if, before, after, because, though, even though, while, when, whenever, if, during, as soon as, as long as, since, until, unless, where, and wherever. These words are called subordinating conjunctions.
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