Question

Check your English skills by answering this question right.

"The dog lived in the garden, but the cat, who was smarter, lived inside the house." This sentence is an example of

(1) Compound Sentence
(2) Simple Sentence
(3) Complex Compound Sentemce
(4) Complex Sentence

Explanation needed alongwith the right answer.

Answer 1

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Before coming to the question,

Let's see what is a simple sentence, a compound sentence and a complex sentence.

Now,

$\sf{Simple \: sentence}$


A sentence consisting of one subject , predicate and a clause is a simple sentence.

Example -

He ate an orange.
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$\sf{Complex \: Sentence}$


Complex sentences are the sentences which contains subordinating conjunctions.

Example -

He was the one who ate an orange.

{ Remember , here , the word "who" is a subordinating conjunction }

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$\sf{Compound \: sentence}$


Compound sentences are the sentences which contains co ordinating conjunctions.

Example =>

He was happy but his friend was sad.

Here , "but" is the coordinating conjunction

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Now,

Let's come to your question!

The answer to your question is Opt. (3)
Complex Compound Sentence.

Reason =>

The given sentence contains both subordinating and co ordinating conjunctions and as a result , we can say that it is complex as well as Compound sentence.

Thus,

It is a Complex Compound Sentence.

Thanks!!