Question

What is the structure of the following sentence? We looked for seashells on the beach, but we did not find any sand dollars. simple complex compound-complex compound

Answer 1

What is the structure of the following sentence?

We looked for seashells on the beach, but we did not find any sand dollars.

Answer: compound

Answer 2

The structure of this sentence is compound.
A compound sentence contains at least two independent clauses, without any dependent ones.
This sentence has two independent clauses:
1. We looked for seashells on the beach
+ but+
2. we did not find any sand dollars.