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Sally said the pimento loaf looked delicious. She fed it to the dog. Which revision below is a compound-complex sentence?

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A compound-complex sentence is a sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.

In the given sentence, "Sally said the pimento loaf looked delicious" is an independent clause because it can stand alone as a complete sentence. "She fed it to the dog" is also an independent clause because it can also stand alone as a complete sentence.

To create a compound-complex sentence, we need to combine these independent clauses with a dependent clause.

One possible revision that creates a compound-complex sentence is:

"Sally said the pimento loaf looked delicious, so she fed it to the dog."

In this revision, "so" is a coordinating conjunction that connects the two independent clauses, and "she fed it to the dog" remains an independent clause.

Therefore, the revised sentence "Sally said the pimento loaf looked delicious, so she fed it to the dog" is a compound-complex sentence.

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