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My classmates wear heavy clothes in the winter months. This sentence is ____________

A sentence containing an independent and a dependent clause, connected with a subordinating conjunction (because, although, if, after, etc). 

Dr. Matthews did what could be done, but it simply was not enough to save his life. This is a ___ sentence.  

Possibly the most serious and most common weakness of all essays by novice writers is the lack of effectively developed body paragraphs.

The story is encouraged to have a random sequence of events. 

Mrs. Carrero said that will be enough, and everyone agreed. This is a _ sentence. 

As we walked to the store, Bill lost his leather skin wallet, and Sally lost her watch.

After spring break we will start a new unit in many of our classes.  

If you discover that a particular point in your essay is so complex that your paragraph is growing far too long, you should…

Ethnography is the most common form of________ research, which relies on what is seen in the field and in naturalistic settings more than it does on statistical data.