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903. Complete sentences are simple, compound, or complex. In the simple sentence subject and predicate occur only once. A compound sentence (2162) consists of two or more simple sentences coördinated: ““τῇ δ᾽ ὑστεραίᾳ ἐπορεύοντο διὰ τοῦ πεδίου, καὶ Τισσαφέρνης εἵπετοbut on the next day they marched through the plain and Tissaphernes kept following themX. A. 3.4.18. A complex sentence (2173) consists of a main sentence and one or more subordinate sentences: ὁπότε δέοι γέφυ_ραν διαβαίνειν, ἔσπευδεν ἕκαστος whenever it was necessary to cross a bridge, every one made haste 3. 4. 20.

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