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In ''One day, they have the chance to leave the island and go home to Switzerland'' is this a simple sentence or complex sentence?
''One day, they have the chance to leave the island and go home to Switzerland, but they decide that the island is their home now.''
Is the and just connecting words or joining two separate clauses?
1 Answer
- UserLv 74 weeks agoFavorite Answer
they have the chance
to
leave the island and go home to Switzerland
So: "to...leave the island" and "to...go home to Switzerland" are both infinitives.
This compound infinitive phrase is acting as an adjective describing "the chance".
(What KIND of chance?
The chance to leave the island and go home to Switzerland.)
The word "and" is connecting the two infinitives to the one "to". Both infinitives are part of a single phrase that acts as a single adjective describing the word "chance".
SO: there is no dependent clause and this is NOT a complex sentence.
