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compound sentence

A sentence built from smaller sentences with connectives.

A compound sentence is made from one or more shorter sentences by a connective such as negation, conjunction, disjunction, the conditional, or the biconditional.

Examples

  • "If it rains, the game is postponed" is compound: two atomic sentences joined by "if … then."

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