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.