Question

The complex from of "He confessed his guilt" is
(a) He confesded that he was guilty
(b) He did confess his guilt
(c) He had confessed his guilt ​

Answer 1

Answer:

A. He confessed that he was guilty.

Answer 2

Answer:

The complex form of "He confessed his guilt." is (a) He confessed that he was guilty.

Explanation:

• A sentence which possesses an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses is known as a complex sentence. And a simple sentence contains only one independent clause (with one subject and one predicate).

• While an independent clause needs no other clause to convey its message.

• A dependent clause needs other clauses to express its meaning.  

• We can change a simple sentence to a complex sentence by expanding a word or a phrase in the simple sentence into a dependent clause.

• A noun clause functions as a noun. It acts as the subject or object of the verb or object of a preposition.

• Here in the given simple sentence the phrase "his guilt" has been expanded to a dependent clause -  "that he confessed he was guilty" that is the object of the verb - "confessed".

• Thus by changing the given sentence into a complex sentence we get, "He confessed that he was guilty".

Hence option (a) He confessed that he was guilty is the correct answer.

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