Which of the following is a complex sentence?

a. as jake was reading the email from june yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention.
b. i would like to visit the kinshasa, but i understand the city is unsafe for foreigners.
c. check out the editorial page in today's paper and you'll notice the piece by george will.
d. i simply cannot make heads or tails of rap lyrics, but i suppose i'm just too old to understand them.

The sentence, “As Jake was reading the email from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention”, is a complex sentence since it has both an independent clause and a dependent clause.

Further Explanation

A sentence is a group of words that are arranged in a certain order in order to communicate a certain message.

Types of sentences Complex sentences   These are sentences that contain both an independent clause and a dependent clause.  The sentence can either start with the dependent or independent clause depending on punctuation marks and the subordinating conjunctions. For Example: As Jake was reading the email from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention. Simple sentence   These are sentences that contain only one independent clause. The sentence may long or short but as a long as it has one independent clause then it is a simple sentence.   Compound sentence   This is a sentence that has two independent clauses joined together using punctuation marks like semicolon, or coma and a conjunction such as or, and, but, etc. Compound sentences can be broken down into two complete sentences, with each sentence having its own subject and verb.

Keywords: Independent clause, dependent clause, complex sentence

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Level: High school

Subject: English

Topic: Sentences and clauses

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