Complex and Compound-Complex Sentence Structures

As it happens, you are right, and I am wrong.

• complex

• compound-complex

Because opinions are still divided, further discussion will be necessary.

• complex

• compound-complex

Between Asia and Africa lies a land bridge that is known as the Sinai Peninsula.

• complex

• compound-complex

Before my grandfather planted his garden, he made a sketch of the layout.

• complex

• compound-complex

I picked up the branches that had fallen during the storm, and my husband mowed the grass.

• complex

• compound-complex

Ernest Shackleton wanted to be the first man to reach the South Pole, and he led a party that came within ninety-seven miles of the pole.

• complex

• compound-complex

Shackleton intended to cross Antarctica, which no one else have ever crossed before.

• compound-complex

• complex

Before the expedition could land, Shackleton's ship was trapped in the ice for ten months.

• compound-complex

• complex

The men escaped the ice in small boats, and they landed on Elephant Island, where they lived in a makeshift camp.

• compound-complex

• complex

Whenever I read about Shackleton, I am amazed he and his crew survived.

• complex

• compound-complex