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compound sentence
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compound sentence
n.
A sentence of two or more coordinate independent clauses, often joined by a conjunction or conjunctions, as The problem was difficult, but I finally found the answer.
compound sentence
n
(Linguistics / Grammar) a sentence containing at least two coordinate clauses
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Noun1.compound sentence - a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
sentence - a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"


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