| complex sentence |
| Definition: A sentence that consists of at least one independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses. |
| Example:
When I quit school, I want to travel as much as possible.
(In the above, When I quit school is the subordinate clause and I want to travel as much as possible is the independent clause.) |
| Oxford English Dictionary: The term's first OED citation is from 1881: "A complex sentence is produced whenever the place of a substantive, an adjective, or an adverb is supplied by a … clause." (Mason Eng. Gram. §402) |