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Select the complex sentence.

Boomer, Carolyn's white Frenchie, came around the corner with a huge purple grin.
He had taken the cupcakes while Carolyn wasn't looking.
It was time to make new cupcakes and put them higher this time.
Maybe this time they could add chocolate chips to the batter.

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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

The complex sentence is:

"He had taken the cupcakes while Carolyn wasn't looking."

A complex sentence is a sentence that contains an independent clause (a complete thought) and at least one dependent clause (an incomplete thought that relies on the independent clause for meaning). In this sentence, "He had taken the cupcakes" is the independent clause, and "while Carolyn wasn't looking" is the dependent clause

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