Question

Read the following sentence, and then determine the sentence structure.

After you finish eating, please take your plate to the kitchen.

a) simple

b) compound

c) complex

d) compound-complex

Answer 1

c) complex....
because it has a dependent clause and an independent clause.

Answer 2

The answer is C: complex

The sentence "After you finish eating, please take your plate to the kitchen." is a complex sentence because it contains one independent clause and one dependent or subordinate clause. The subordinating conjunction "After" makes the first clause a subordinate clause, which is one that doesn't have a complete thought, and depends on the main clause.