13. Which of the following is a complex sentence?
A. I would like to visit the Kinshasa, but I understand the city is unsafe for foreigners.
B. As Jake was reading the letter from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention.
C. I simply cannot make heads or tails of rap lyrics, but I suppose I'm just too old to understand them.
D. Check out the editorial page in today's paper and you'll notice the piece by Oscar Lewis.
Is the answer B?
Yes, B.
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Was it b? Did you get it right?
To determine which of the given options is a complex sentence, we need to understand what a complex sentence is.
A complex sentence is a sentence that contains an independent clause and at least one dependent clause. An independent clause can stand alone as a complete sentence, expressing a complete thought, while a dependent clause relies on the independent clause to make sense.
Let's analyze each option:
A. "I would like to visit the Kinshasa, but I understand the city is unsafe for foreigners."
This sentence contains two independent clauses connected by the coordinating conjunction "but."
B. "As Jake was reading the letter from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention."
This sentence contains one independent clause and one dependent clause. The dependent clause "As Jake was reading the letter from June yet again" relies on the independent clause "the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention" to make sense.
C. "I simply cannot make heads or tails of rap lyrics, but I suppose I'm just too old to understand them."
This sentence contains two independent clauses connected by the coordinating conjunction "but."
D. "Check out the editorial page in today's paper and you'll notice the piece by Oscar Lewis."
This sentence contains two independent clauses connected by the coordinating conjunction "and."
After analyzing each option, we can see that the sentence that contains at least one dependent clause is B. Therefore, option B, "As Jake was reading the letter from June yet again, the flight attendant coughed gently to get his attention," is the complex sentence.