compound sentence

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   a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses

   Broadersentence

Questions about compound sentence

What does compound sentence mean?

compound sentence means "a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses".

Is compound sentence a common word?

compound 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.