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Select whether the sentence below is a simple, compound, complex or compound-complex sentence.

Because the city was on a hill surrounded by canyons and caverns, its location was very safe.

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Answer:

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Complex

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The sentence below is a complex sentence.
A complex sentence has an independent clause and a dependent clause that has a subordinating conjunction before it. The dependent clause of the sentence is "Because the city was on a hill surrounded by canyons and caverns" and the subordinating conjunction that comes before it is "because". The independent clause is "its location was very safe". Hope this helped!
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