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compound sentence

Gram. a sentence consisting of two or more independent, coordinate clauses (Ex.: She drinks coffee, but he prefers tea)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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