6. Mixed type of composite sentences
Not every sentence we come across in a text or in oral speech is bound to be
either syndetic or asyndetic, either compound or complex, etc. Several or all of
these characteristics can be found in a sentence at the same time. It can contain
several clauses, some of them connected with each other syndetically, that is, by
conjunctions or connective words, while others are connected asyndetically, that is,
without any such words; some of the clauses are co-ordinated with each other,
while others are subordinate, so that another part of the whole sentence is complex,
etc. The amount of variations is probably unlimited. Such sentences are often
referred to as mixed sentences. Prof. Blokh uses the term
complex-compound
sentence
(or compound-complex sentence) to name a sentence that consists of
multiple independent clauses, at least one of which has at least one dependent
clause.
e.g.
Though
Lois was very jauntily attired in an expensively appropriate
travelling affair, she did not linger to pat out the dust
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