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How to Write Compound - Complex
Sentences As its name implies, a compound - complex sentence has at least two independent clauses and one dependent clause. This type of sentence provides you with the greatest flexibility (弹性) and helps you to express (表达) a very complicated meaning. Identify the dependent clauses and the independent clauses in the following passage: People who live in cities today think that meat is something that comes wrapped in cellophane (玻璃纸) from the supermarket, potatoes come in paper bags, and feathers grow in hats. The city dwellers' views are quite different from the views of their ancestors, who knew that meat is hunted down in the forest, potatoes are planted and weeded, and only birds can produce feathers. Yet, whether people today realize it or not, they are still as dependent on animals and plants for their existence as their ancestors were. Exercise: Now review by yourself all the approaches we have learned to enrich our
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