Is the sentence Lincoln did not go to school much, but he loved to read books a simple, compound, or complex sentence?
1 Answer
Jan 10, 2018
It is a compound sentence
Explanation:
Compound sentence has at least two independent clauses that have related ideas.
Compound sentence joins the two clauses with a conjunction. Such as for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
Lincoln did not go to school much, but he loved to read books.
Clause one is: Lincoln did not go to school much
Conjunction is: But
Clause two is: He loved to read books
Another thing you should be able to identify in a compound sentence is that the conjunction can change the meaning of the sentence.