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"complex sentence" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a sentence which contains two or more independent clauses with at least one dependent clause. For example: "Although I was tired, I stayed up late to finish my paper, which was a complex sentence."
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complex sentence
noun
A sentence that contains an independent clause as well as one or more dependent clauses, such as a relative clause, an adverbial clause, or a noun clause.
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The result is a complex sentence.
Hardy used complex sentence structures and unusual but interesting language.
(Also, the long and complex sentence could have used some surgery).
In fact, the entire sentence is a complex sentence, because it is made up of both independent and dependent clauses.
As his career went on, his stuff lost nuance – he became more of a belter, less likely to worry his way through a complex sentence or thought.
It's dramatic, for sure, but in a measured, nuanced, knotty way, like a long, complex sentence with many digressive clauses and a logic sometimes hard to follow.
Nonfinite verbs do not carry g-n-p markers, and they head subordinate clauses that precede the main clause in a complex sentence.
An attempt to tame a really complex sentence can oil your brain, twist it into a pretzel and make it do back flips.
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And then, of course, we can combine styles into a compound-complex sentence, which really adds twists and turns.
Compound-Complex sentence: A sentence that has two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
A situation like that seems more often to require the compound-complex sentence. .
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