Asked by julie

Read the sentence.

There is a swimming pool in our backyard, but it contains no water.

This is an example of a

compound sentence.
compound-complex sentence.

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Compound sentence.

It has two independent clauses ("There is a swimming pool in our backyard" and "it contains no water") joined by the coordinating conjunction "but." There are no subordinate clauses, so it's not compound-complex.