Identify the following sentence as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex. One of the many surprising facts about western Africa is that the Sahara was not always a desert. A. compound-complex B. simple C. compound D. complex
D. complex This sentence contains a dependent clause, 'One of the many surprising facts about western Africa is that' and an independent clause, 'the Sahara was not always a desert', making it a complex sentence.
