Question

Identify the following sentence as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. In fact, only a small percentage of southern Africa is desert.

Answer 1

The answer is a simple sentence, I took the test and got it correct just now.

Answer 2

You can take "in fact" out of the sentence to help with determine what type of sentence it is because it's a prepositional phrase. This leaves us with "Only a small percentage of Southern Africa is desert" which is a simple sentence.