compound sentence
sentence whose constituents include at least two independent clauses
predicative sentence
sentence of the type “the most important thing is that…”, “what I knew was that…” etc.
cleft sentence
complex sentence that has a meaning that could be expressed by a simple sentence
complex sentence
sentence whose constituents include at least one independent clause and at least one dependent clause
complex-compound sentence
sentence containing at least two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause
coordinate compound sentence
sentence containing independent clauses connected by a coordinating conjunction
multinuclear compound sentence
compound sentence that consists of at least three parts