Discussion
Direction : Identify the following sentence pattern.
When everything fails, God helps you.
Answer: C
The sentence is a complex sentence.
It has one independent (main) clause, 'God helps you', which can stand alone, and one dependent clause, 'When everything fails', introduced by the subordinating conjunction 'when'. One main clause with at least one subordinate clause makes a complex sentence.
A simple sentence has only one clause. A compound sentence joins two or more independent clauses with a coordinating conjunction such as 'and' or 'but'. A compound-complex sentence needs at least two independent clauses plus a dependent one. This sentence has only one independent clause.
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