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These sentences may be graphically presented in the following way:
1.
The door... opened
————and————
two men came in
2.
I have come to
you because I know...
that you are...
A compound sentence may contain coordinate clauses extended by subordinate clauses, and the resulting
structure is a compound-complex sentence.
Pooh was very proud when he heard this, and he felt that Heffalump was as good as caught already, but
there was just one other thing which had to be thought about.
A complex sentence may contain subordinate clauses joined by means of coordination, the resulting
structure being a complex sentence with homogeneous subordinate clauses.
I must impress upon you again that you are in a very great danger, and that the utmost frankness is
necessary.
THE COMPOUND SENTENCE
§ 137. A compound sentence consists of two or more clauses of equal rank which form one syntactical
whole in meaning and intonation. Clauses that are parts of a compound sentence are called coordinate, as they
are joined by coordination.
Coordinate clauses may be linked together with or without a connector; in the first case they are joined