An
independent clause will always be able to stand on its own as a complete sentence. That means it has a
subject and a predicate. The subject of the clause will be a noun and the predicate will describe the subject
or what the subject is doing.
The independent clauses in a compound-complex sentence are called coordinate. This is a fancy way to say
that they’re related to each other, and that it makes sense for them to be in the same sentence.
Here are a few examples of independent clauses in compound-complex sentences, with the
independent
clauses highlighted in green
. You can see that they’re related to each other because they have to do with the
same subject, and that they can be complete sentences.
Even though she was tired,
Abby knew she had to finish the race, so she ran to meet her team
.
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