compound-complex sentence: Meaning and Definition of

com'pound-com'plex sen'tence

Pronunciation: (kom'pound-kom'pleks), [key]
  1. a sentence having two or more coordinate independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses, as The lightning flashed (independent clause) and the rain fell (independent clause) as he entered the house (dependent clause).
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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