Is "We stayed in hotels for a while, until we found an affordable house that we still reside in." a compound-complex sentence?
Yes, "We stayed in hotels for a while, until we found an affordable house that we still reside in." is a compound-complex sentence as it consists of two independent clauses ("We stayed in hotels for a while" and "we still reside in") connected by a conjunction "until" and a dependent clause ("that we still reside in").
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"that we still reside in" is a subordinate clause, modifying "house". The sentence is just complex, not compound-complex.
I apologize for the error in my earlier response. You are correct, "that we still reside in" is a subordinate clause modifying "house" and it does not create a second independent clause. Therefore, the correct classification of the sentence is complex, not compound-complex. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
To determine whether the sentence "We stayed in hotels for a while, until we found an affordable house that we still reside in" is a compound-complex sentence, we need to break it down into its components.
A compound sentence consists of two or more independent clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or). An independent clause is a group of words that can stand alone as a complete sentence.
A complex sentence, on the other hand, contains at least one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses, which cannot stand alone as complete sentences.
The sentence in question is: "We stayed in hotels for a while, until we found an affordable house that we still reside in."
Breaking it down, we have:
1. "We stayed in hotels for a while" - This is an independent clause. It can stand alone as a complete sentence.
2. "until we found an affordable house that we still reside in" - This is a dependent clause because it starts with the dependent marker "until." It cannot stand alone as a complete sentence.
Based on this analysis, the given sentence is a compound-complex sentence because it contains both an independent clause and a dependent clause.