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compound sentence

com·pound sen·tence (plural com·pound sen·tenc·es)


noun 
Definition:
 
sentence with multiple clauses: a sentence containing two or more clauses that can stand independently. The clauses are often linked by a conjunction, which is sometimes preceded by a comma, as in "We waited for over an hour, but she didn't show up."

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