Complex Sentences

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Identify the complex sentence:

A beaver's front teeth are super strong and orange.

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Because beaver's front teeth contain an iron coating, it makes them super strong and orange.

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A beaver's front teeth have a coating containing iron, and that makes them super strong and orange.

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Since beaver's front teeth have a special iron coating.

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Because beaver's front teeth contain an iron coating, it makes them super strong and orange.

Front

Identify the complex sentence:

Since crocodiles can't clean their own teeth, they let small birds called plovers pick leftover food off their teeth.

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Crocodiles can't clean their own teeth.

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Crocodiles open their mouths, so small birds called plovers can pick leftover food off their teeth.

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After small birds called plovers pick leftover food off the crocodile's teeth.

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Since crocodiles can't clean their own teeth, they let small birds called plovers pick leftover food off their teeth.

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Identify the complex sentence:

Although a rabbit's nose twitches.

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A rabbit's nose is packed with smell sensors, and its nose twitches for many different reasons.

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A rabbit's nose twitches for many reasons.

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A rabbit's nose twitches faster when it is interested or excited.

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Although a rabbit's nose twitches.

Front

Identify the complex sentence:

A warthog's nose isn't very pretty, but it's perfect for finding food.

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A warthog's nose isn't very pretty to look at.

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If you had a warthog's nose, you wouldn't win a beauty contest.

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Although a warthog's nose isn't very pretty.

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If you had a warthog's nose, you wouldn't win a beauty contest.

Front

Identify the complex sentence:

When a sloth hangs upside down, its hair falls over its body.

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Sloths spend most of their days hanging upside down, so their hair grows differently than other hairy animals.

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Since sloths spend most of their days hanging upside down.

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Sloths spend most of their days hanging upside down.

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When a sloth hangs upside down, its hair falls over its body.

Front

Identify the complex sentence:

As the days grow warmer.

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An Arctic fox fur is white in the winter and turns brown in the warmer seasons.

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An Arctic fox is white in winter.

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As the days grow warmer, an Arctic fox sheds its white wintertime coat.

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As the days grow warmer, an Arctic fox sheds its white wintertime coat.

Front

Identify the complex sentence:

Llamas have extra long eyelashes, and they act like a sunshade.

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It's like having built-in super dark sunglasses.

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Since a llama's eyelashes are thick and bushy.

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Since a llama's eyelashes are extra long, they also make great sunshades.

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Since a llama's eyelashes are extra long, they also make great sunshades.

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Identify the complex sentence:

A bullfrog's eyes are on top of its head.

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A bullfrog's eyes are on top of it's head, so the frog can hide underwater.

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When a bullfrog dives underwater, their eyelids slide over its eyes.

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As a bullfrog dives underwater.

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When a bullfrog dives underwater, their eyelids slide over its eyes.

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___________ a hammerhead shark's nostrils are so far apart, the shark can tell if the fishy scent is stronger to the left or right.

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Because

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________________ a horseshoe bat hangs upside down, it snorts high pitched noises out its nose and listens for echo signals by nearby insects.

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While