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compound sentence

 

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Noun compound sentence has 1 sense
  1. compound sentence - a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
    --1 is a kind of
    sentence

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Compound Sentence

A compound sentence is a type of sentence that consists of two or more independent clauses connected by coordinating conjunctions or punctuation.

Example usages:

  • She went to the store, and he stayed home.
  • I love playing tennis, but my brother prefers basketball.
  • The wind was howling, so we decided to stay indoors.

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