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Because the high winds are blowing, the fire may spread rapidly, and we have been ordered to evacuate.
What type of sentence is this?
a simple sentence
a complex sentence
a compound-complex sentence
a compound sentence
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Compound-complex sentence.
Explanation: it has one dependent (subordinate) clause — "Because the high winds are blowing" — plus two independent clauses — "the fire may spread rapidly" and "we have been ordered to evacuate" — joined by the coordinating conjunction "and."
Explanation: it has one dependent (subordinate) clause — "Because the high winds are blowing" — plus two independent clauses — "the fire may spread rapidly" and "we have been ordered to evacuate" — joined by the coordinating conjunction "and."
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