Please answer this question-

1.I dreamt that I live in Marble hall.
2.People who are given to quarrelling cannot be happy.
3.The farmers who live in this village are honest and contended
4.A wise man is he who learns from the mistake of others and a fo.ol is he who learns from his own mistakes
5.He worked as if he was in a hurry.
Tell whether these sentence are complex or compound and point out the main and the subordinate clause

Dear student,

The answers are as follows:
1. I dreamt that I live in Marble hall. - Complex Sentence
I dreamt - independent clause
that - relative pronoun
I live in Marble hall.  - dependent clause

2. People who are given to quarreling cannot be happy. - Complex Sentence
People - independent clause (part 1)
who are given to quarreling - essential dependent clause
cannot be happy - independent clause (part 2)

3. The farmers who live in this village are honest and contended. - Complex sentence
The farmers - independent clause (part 1)
who live in this village - essential dependent clause
are honest and contended - independent clause (part 2)

4. A wise man is he who learns from the mistake of others and a fool is he who learns from his own mistakes. - Compound-complex Sentence
A wise man is he - dependent clause
who learns from the mistake of others - dependent clause
and - coordinating conjunction
a fool is he - dependent clause
who learns from his own mistakes - dependent clause

5. He worked as if he was in a hurry. - Compound Sentence
He worked - independent clause
as if - subordinating conjunction
he was in a hurry - independent clause

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