Besides eating ice cream cones on Saturday, Mr. Smith sang the same song every night until eight o'clock.
The sentence above is a _____.

mod note: Please do not give away the answer directly. Low-effort and/or plagiarized answers will be removed.

Question

Besides eating ice cream cones on Saturday, Mr. Smith sang the same song every night until eight o'clock.
The sentence above is a _____.

mod note: Please do not give away the answer directly. Low-effort and/or plagiarized answers will be removed.

Mercury · Answer

old question but will respond so this can be closed

choices:

simple sentence
compound sentence
complex sentence
compound-complex sentence

notice how "Mr. Smith sang the same song... eight o'clock" is an independent clause, as it expresses a complete idea and can stand on its own. "Besides eating ice cream cones on Saturday" is a dependent clause and thus cannot stand on its own.

1 independent clause + 1 dependent clause ---> what type of sentence?