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Allied with Green
by Naomi Shihab Nye

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Question
Which sentence is a complex sentence?
Responses

It hasn’t rained in a long time.
It hasn’t rained in a long time.

Plants cannot grow without water.
Plants cannot grow without water.

Without enough rain, plants will not grow.
Without enough rain, plants will not grow.

It hasn’t rained in a long time, and the plants are dead.
It hasn’t rained in a long time, and the plants are dead.

Answer 1

Without enough rain, plants will not grow.

This is the best choice because it contains an independent clause ("plants will not grow") plus a dependent adverbial phrase ("Without enough rain") that modifies it, making the sentence complex.