Read this sentence summarizing a scene from “Uncle Richard’s New Year’s Dinner” by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Prissy learned two things during that overheard conversation: first, that Uncle Richard would be out of town for the afternoon, and second, that he had nobody to make his New Year’s dinner. Which type of sentence is this example sentence? a. simple b. compound c. complex d. compound-complex

Answer 1

The sentence you provided is a complex sentence. This is because it contains an independent clause ("Prissy learned two things during that overheard conversation") and one or more dependent clauses ("that Uncle Richard would be out of town for the afternoon" and "that he had nobody to make his New Year’s dinner"). The use of "that" introduces the dependent clauses.