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A sentence usually defined as having ...
- a subject and an object
- a subject and non-finite verb
- a subject and a finite verb.
- a noun and a verb
This is my house. is ...
- a simple sentence
- a complex sentence
- a compound sentence
- a compound-complex sentence
This is my house and you are leaving it now. is ...
- a compound sentence
- a complex sentence
- a simple sentence
- a compound-complex sentence
This is my house but you are leaving it now. is ...
- a complex sentence
- a compound-complex sentence
- a simple sentence
- a compound sentence
This is my house but you are leaving it now and you are never coming back. is ...
- a compound-complex sentence
- a compound sentence
- a complex sentence
- a simple sentence
Would you close the door, please. is ...
- a question form functioning as an interrogative
- an interrogative form with an imperative function
- an imperative form with an
interrogative function
- a statement functioning as an imperative
You drove home, did you? (with the emphasis on 'drove' and falling intonation at the end) is ...
- a positive statement with a positive tag usually functioning as a criticism
- a positive statement with a negative tag usually functioning as a criticism
- a statement with a positive tag usually functioning as an imperative
- a positive statement with a positive tag usually functioning as an interrogative