Select whether the sentence below is a simple, compound, complex or compound-complex sentence
However, when David came to conquer the city with his army, he discovered that the Jebusites got their drinking water from a spring just outside the city walls.
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Subordinate clauses:
that the Jebusites got their drinking water from a spring just outside the city walls.
However, when David came to conquer the city with his army,
Independent clause:
he discovered
The given sentence is a compound-complex sentence.
To determine this, we first need to identify the sentence's main clause and any subordinate clauses.
The main clause in this sentence is: "However, when David came to conquer the city with his army, he discovered that the Jebusites got their drinking water from a spring just outside the city walls."
Now, let's identify the subordinate clauses within this sentence:
1. "when David came to conquer the city with his army" - This is a subordinate clause that acts as an adverbial phrase, indicating the time when the action took place.
2. "that the Jebusites got their drinking water from a spring just outside the city walls" - This is a subordinate clause that acts as an object of the main clause. It provides additional information about what David discovered.
Since the given sentence contains both a main clause and subordinate clauses, it is categorized as a compound-complex sentence.