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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.

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"Without enough rain, plants will not grow."

Explanation: It has a dependent element ("Without enough rain") plus an independent clause ("plants will not grow"), making it a complex sentence.