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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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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
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."