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Identify the sentence type.

He never smiled, he never frowned, he never changed his voice from the gentle-flowing key to which he turned the initial sentence.

simple
compound
complex
compound-complex
fragment

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Hello! I'm pretty sure it is a compound-complex sentence. Hope this helped.
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Answer:

The sentence type is compound-complex.

Step-by-step explanation:

A simple sentence has only one independent clause. For example, "He never smiled."

A compound sentence has more than one independent clause; "He never smiled, he never frowned."

A complex sentence and compound-complex sentence are similar, but the first has only one independent clause with one or more dependent clauses, while the compund-complex sentence has more than one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.

In this sentence, there are 3 independent clauses (He never smiled, he never frowned, he never changed his voice) and at least one dependent clause. So this makes it a complex-compound sentence.

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