ABSTRACT
Compound/complex sentences It is obvious that sentences may be at once both compound and complex, i.e. that they may contain clauses that are linked and clauses in a dependence relationship. Conditioning clauses may be linked as well as dependent. Alpha clauses may be linked. So as well as a great variety in the length of sentences, there may also be great variety in the structure of sentences. Sentences are found consisting of from one to ten clauses. Simple sentences have been dealt with, so have examples of relationships between clauses; numbers of clauses to sentences have been given in Table 1. However, more interesting than the crude number of classes of clauses present in a sentence is to look at the variety of combinations of relationship and the classes of clauses occurring. This is very difficult to convey diagrammatically, but Table 4 may give some idea, although some points discussed in the text (such as sequence of clauses) are not shown in the table.
