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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024ˈcom•pound ˈsen•tence, n. [countable]- Grammara sentence containing two or more coordinate clauses, usually joined by one or more coordinate conjunctions, such as the sentence The lightning flashed and the rain fell, which consists of The lightning flashed (an independent clause), and (a coordinate conjunction), and the rain fell (a second independent clause).
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024com′pound sen′tence, - Grammara sentence containing two or more coordinate independent clauses, usually joined by one or more conjunctions, but no dependent clause, as The lightning flashed (independent clause) and (conjunction) the rain fell (independent clause).
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: compound sentence n - a sentence containing at least two coordinate clauses
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