Question

Uma and Ira were late because their car had a flat tyre.(Identify simple/compound/complex)​

Answer 1

Complex sentence due to the conjunction ‘ because’ . Thanks

Answer 2

Question:-

Uma and Ira were late because their car had a flat tyre.(Identify simple/compound/complex)

Answer:-

Uma and Ira were late because their car had a flat tyre.

This is a Complex sentence

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First, let's see the meanings of simple, compound and complex sentence.

• Simple Sentence:- Simple sentences are sentences containing one independent clause, with a subject and a predicate.
• Compound sentence:- A sentence, when two independent related ideas clauses are connected by a conjunction, is called compound sentence.
• Complex Sentence:- A complex sentence is a sentence that contains an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

Now, let's see the sentence we we're given.

Uma and Ira were late because their car had a flat tyre.

Here, two clauses are used:- "Uma and Ira was late" and "Their car had a flat tyre"

Here, the first clause ""Uma and Ira was late" is dependent on second clause "Their car had a flat tyre" by the conjunction "because"

The word used to link an independent clause to a dependent clause is called a subordinating conjunction. The most common subordinating conjunctions are although, because, before, even though, if, since, until, and when.

Therefore, we can say, the sentence is a complex sentence.