Question

What is the difference between simple, compound and complex sentences? Identify each
of the following sentences as simple, compound or complex. 5+10
i He told me that he would be going to Mumbai next week.
ii She is very beautiful.
iii I like rasgullas and my sister likes gulabjamuns.
iv The girl whom you met last week came here looking for you.
v I am going to the market.
vi She will go to the party only if her father will drop her.
vii I think that you are right.
viii Finish your homework and put the notebooks back in your bag.
ix Madhu dreamt that she was flying an aeroplane.
x Either you sit properly or you leave the room.

Answer 1

The difference between a compound sentence and complex sentence is that acompound sentence has two independent clauses and a complex sentence has one independent clause and one dependent clause. A sentence is a group of words that has a subject and a predicate.