Read each sentence and determine whether it is compound, complex, or compound-complex.“Because our favorite restaurant was closed, we decided to cook dinner at home.”

“Because our favorite restaurant was closed” is a dependent clause: it begins with “because” and cannot stand alone as a complete sentence. “We decided to cook dinner at home” is an independent clause. A sentence with one dependent clause and one independent clause is complex, so the correct choice is complex.

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