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When I was a young girl, my family lived in Pennsylvania." What type of sentence is this?

(A) Simple
(B) Compound
(C) Complex
(D) Compound-complex

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Final answer:

The sentence "When I was a young girl, my family lived in Pennsylvania" is a complex sentence that contains one independent clause and one subordinate clause.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence "When I was a young girl, my family lived in Pennsylvania" is a complex sentence. It contains one independent clause (main clause) and one subordinate clause. The independent clause is "my family lived in Pennsylvania" and the subordinate clause is "When I was a young girl". The independent clause can stand alone as a sentence, but the subordinate clause cannot.

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