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| 1. What you say AND what you do are two different things. (my analysis:) ‘what you say’ = dependent noun clause ‘what you do’ = dependent noun clause … are two different things = independent clause (?) 2. To do this, you will be able to determine whether you are making progress OR if you need to adjust your plan. (my analysis:) ‘to do this’ = to-infinitive phrase ‘you will be able to determine’ = independent clause ‘whether you are making progress’ = dependent noun clause ‘if you need to adjust your plan’ = dependent noun clause Both look like a COMPLEX SENTENCE to me since there isn’t more than one independent clause. But do the coordinating conjunctions ‘AND’ and ‘OR’ make them compound-complex? Many thanks, donna |
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| "What you say and what you do" is the subject here; "are two different things" is the predicate. It's just a declarative sentence that happens to have a subject realized by two conjoined nominal relative clauses. The sentence is neither compound nor complex. Sentence 2) is not acceptable English: an initial to-infinitive clause like this is often preceded by "in order' or "so as" and is used used to explain why something is done: <to succeed, you'll have to work very hard>. If you read sentence 2) carefully, you'll see that it makes no sense. Perhaps the writer meant to write "have" instead of " be able." //In sentence 2), everything after the adjectrive "able" is a complement of that adjec tive. // |
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