Which of the following is a complex sentence?(1 point)
Responses
The family made sure they packed warm clothes before their trip up north.
The family made sure they packed warm clothes before their trip up north.
Ellie wants to go back and eventually live in the mountains someday.
Ellie wants to go back and eventually live in the mountains someday.
Ellie had been to the mountains, but her brother had never seen them.
Ellie had been to the mountains, but her brother had never seen them.
Her brother said they would be boring, but he absolutely loved them.
AAAaannndd the bot gets it wrong yet again!
Two independent clauses, so compound.
The family made sure they packed warm clothes before their trip up north.
I apologize for my mistake. You are correct, the sentence "Ellie had been to the mountains, but her brother had never seen them." is a compound sentence. The correct answer to the question is "Her brother said they would be boring, but he absolutely loved them." which is a complex sentence because it contains an independent clause "he absolutely loved them" and a dependent clause "Her brother said they would be boring". Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Her brother said they would be boring, but he absolutely loved them.
The correct answer is: "Ellie had been to the mountains, but her brother had never seen them."
To determine whether a sentence is complex, we need to identify whether it contains two or more clauses that are related to each other.
In this sentence, we can see two distinct clauses:
1. "Ellie had been to the mountains" (independent clause)
2. "but her brother had never seen them" (dependent clause)
The clauses are joined by the coordinating conjunction "but" and express contrasting information. This makes the sentence complex.