complex sentence

1. 1.

   a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause

   Broadersentence

   Narrowerloose sentenceperiodic sentence

   Partsmain clausecoordinate clausesubordinate clause

Questions about complex sentence

What does complex sentence mean?

complex sentence means "a sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause".

Is complex sentence a common word?

complex sentence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.