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A compound sentence is a sentence that contains more than one complete thought, or main idea. Usually, the conjunction word "and" will join the two independent clauses (ideas) together. The clauses (parts of the sentence) are considered "independent" when each one can express a thought by itself.
Consider this example:
"Karen is going to the store to buy groceries and she is stopping by the bakery to order the birthday cake."
If you take the "and" out of the sentence and replace it with a period, you are still left with two complete thoughts. Karen is buying groceries and Karen is ordering the cake. A compound sentence joins these two events together.
Compound sentences can be written another way. A punctuation mark called a semicolon looks like this ; In more complex sentences, it can be used in place of "and". The example looks like this:
"Karen is going to the store to buy groceries; she is stopping by the bakery to order the birthday cake."
In either example the result is the same. A complex sentence joins two or more main ideas together and it is expressed in writing as one idea.
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