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compound sentence

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

(Linguistics / Grammar) a sentence containing at least two coordinate clauses

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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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