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complete predicate
The Battle of Tippecanoe
A complex sentence has a dependent clause and a compound-complex sentence has two independent clauses.
2010. The race lasted some six hours because of crashes and two lengthy stoppages to fill in a pothole in Turn Two.
8 hours 36 minutes
The battle lasted for a whole day. It was fought on 22 August 1485.
the clause that couldn't stand on its own is called: Dependent clause or Subordinating clause. example: before you leave for work today. another would be: After the long exhausting day. These two examples may contain a subject and a verb (you - subject and leave - verb [for the first example]) but this group of words is dependent clause because this group of words does not express a complete thought and it needs to be attached to a main clause or a independent clause. By the way, a clause that could stand on its own is called a main clause or an idependent clause. An example of which is "I slept for three hours." This in fact is an independent clause or a simple sentence. but if you attach the dependent clause - "After a long exhausting day." you will have a sentence that looks like this: After the long exhausting day, I slept for three hours. (this now becomes a complex sentence. It is a combination of an independent clause and a dependent clause in one sentence.
reasonable clause and warrant clause
Are defined as STRUCTURES OF PREDICATION because we have a subject and a predicate. Are divided into two: MAIN CLAUSE and SUBORDINATE CLAUSE.
Most tornadoes last a few minutes, and some may only be on the ground for seconds. However, a handful of tornadoes have lasted for two or three hours.
It differs between person. When I got mine it lasted about 2 hours.