EAL Skills: Complex and Compound-Complex Sentences.

Compound – Complex Sentence

1)After I finish the meeting, my coffee was too cold, so I heated it in the microwave.

Complex Sentence

1)Because my coffee was too cold, I heated it in the microwave.

2)I heated my coffee in the microwave because it was too cold.

 

 

Compound – Complex Sentence

1)Sarah cried when her rabbit got sick , but she soon got better.

Complex Sentence

1)Sarah cried but she soon got better.

2) Sarah soon got better although she cried.

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