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Complex sentences are units of syntax, a branch of the science of language, which studies phrases and sentences. These are not the smallest units. They consist of simple sentences combined into one grammatical and intonational whole.

Simple syntactic units that make up complex sentences have their own grammatical basics, but they do not have intonation and semantic completeness, differing from simple sentences existing independently. Completeness is possessed only by the whole composition of simple sentences expressing a complex thought.

An example of a simple sentence: The usual spring morning began.

An example of a complex sentence: Behind the window the first bird's voices rang, in the room it became light, the usual spring morning began.

Means of communication between simple constructions that are part of complex sentences are unions, so-called union words, and intonation, which is expressed in writing by punctuation. Relative pronouns and pronominal adverbs act as allied words. Often, proposals are kept together only by intonation.

As for the means of communication, complex sentences are divided into non-union and allied constructions.

The group of allied proposals, in turn, is divided into complex and complex sentences. There are also complex sentences with different types of communication.

Example of an all-union complex sentence: I will never go to deception, it's very unpleasant to feel like a liar, it will break the delicate balance of my life.

An example of a complex compound sentence: Tourists walked quickly, and only two kilometers remained to the campground.

An example of a complex sentence: Lesnik warned that if the weather does not improve, then there is nothing to dream about hunting.

In the framework of a compound sentence, simple constructions are separated by commas. Commas are not placed before connecting and separating unions, if the simple parts they join are related to a general secondary member or a general subordinate clause.

Example: From the window shine the distant mountains and the river is visible.

If one of the proposals contains an opposition or an abrupt adherence, then a dash is placed instead of a comma.

Example: He will raise his hand - and several people press dozens of buttons, voting for absent deputies.

If in complex sentences all parts are equal, then in complex sentences there is a major part and secondary ones. The main part contains the main idea, the main statement, and the secondary parts, expressed by simple sentences, answer questions of secondary members by analogy with the structure of a simple sentence.

By the nature of communication, compound sentences are divided into those that are connected to the main sentence directly and to those that are connected by a serial connection, and with the main one, only one.

Example: She told me how she rested in the summer and where she plans to go in the winter.

To the narrator, both clauses

Example: I suddenly saw someone coming out of a neighboring house, in which, as I was told, there had been no light for many years.

With the main sentence "I suddenly saw " there is only a subordinate clause " that someone comes from a neighboring house ." The remaining subordinate parts are connected consecutively with each other.

English language also uses complex constructions. If parts of a complex syntactic structure consisting of simple constructions are equivalent and each has grammatical centers represented by a subject and a predicate, then these are analogues of Russian compound sentences.

Example: We have bought a modern house, but we are not satisfied with them. We bought a modern house, but we are unhappy with it.

Simple parts of a complex whole are often joined by unions, as in the Russian proposal. In this example, this union is but an analog of the Russian adversive union.

Complex sentences in English are also complex, in which secondary simple syntactic constructions obey the main part.

What he told me yesterday turned out to be the pure truth. What he told me yesterday was pure truth.