The armies fought bravely, but neither could defeat the other. The sentence is:
Correct answer: C. Complex
- A. Simple
- B. Compound
- C. Complex
- D. Compound-Complex
Explanation
A complex sentence has one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses (clauses that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence). This sentence has an independent clause ("The armies fought bravely") and a dependent clause ("but neither could defeat the other") introduced by the subordinating conjunction "but."
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