ShmoopTube

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And here's your shmoop du jour brought

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to you by donuts surprisingly you won't find them at Whole Foods which of the [Man cuing for donuts]

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following combines these two sentences to make a complex sentence I went to the

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concert I went to the donut shop and your your pendulum [Sentence appears]

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well the concert or the donut shop always one or the other if only some

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brave artists could bridge the gap maybe with an acoustic roller or maybe music [Man playing guitar on stage]

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just isn't ready for that yet as far as the real question goes we'll give you a

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hint remember that a complex sentence is a sentence that has at least one [Teacher discussing complex sentence to class]

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subordinate clause in it thus being long and random enough we've got tons of

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options here's let's see which one fits the bill starting at the bottom would be

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this one isn't even a complete sentence so there's no way it's right what about

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C C's you've got two sentences here not one and two is rarely if ever equal to [Man with donuts on stage]

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one we have two mathematician and she said our metrics out so she's got to go

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how about B well this one's actually a single well formed sentence but it's not

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complex the clauses can stand alone as their own sentences that is they're [Independent clauses appear]

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independent clauses which might be great for their self-confidence academically

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and got enough for us treat without an adult but it means B is not our answer

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either it looks like we're almost out of options what about a finally this one

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actually has a subordinate clause after I went through the concert can't stand [Subordinate clause highlighted from sentence]

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on its own two legs in a sentence so at long last we have our answer we kind of

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make what's to want to get out on a five string apple fritter [Man eating apple fritter and playing guitar]

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