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Example of a Great Homework Question

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Is the following sentence a compound sentence? Or, is it a complex sentence?

I am very smart, yet I do not enjoy school.

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Enter "compound sentence" in the search box.
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Your sentence meets the definition for "compound sentence" because it has at least two independent clauses.
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