We have been looking at complex sentences in class. A complex sentence is a sentence that has a dependent clause as well as a main clause. A main clause on its own is called a simple sentence.
We were given the following simple sentences based on the image below and I have turned them into complex sentences (with the dependent clause in italics.)
| The men sat at the table. | Exhausted, the men sat the table. |
| The men wore red coats. | The men, who were in the British army, wore red coats. |
| The men were feeling tired. | After escorting the last convicts to the farm, the men were feeling tired. |
| The table was piled high with food. | The table was piled high with food, which was to be eaten by later, by the red coated men. |
| The weather was very hot today. | The men are at the lake, because the weather is very hot today. |
