“Mom baked the cake; I iced it.” Compound, Complex, or Simple?

Compound

Explanation:

A compound sentence is made up of two independent sentences usually joined together by a coordinating conjunction. Independent sentences can stand alone. In the sentence above, there are two independent clauses that are joined together by a semicolon. The two independent clauses are;

A simple sentence has just one independent clause, while a complex sentence has an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.

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