What is the main idea of this text ? a. branch rickey chose to sign jackie robinson to his major league baseball team rather than satchel paige because jackie was a stronger player and a more likeable person b. satchel paige was such a talented pitcher that his catchers had to cushion their gloves in order to handle his pitches. c. although jackie robinson was the first black baseball player in the major league , most other black baseball players were resentful of his success. d. satchel paige was a talented black baseball pitcher who laid the groundwork for major league baseball to include black players like jackie robinson.

she learned to understand that physical beauty wasn’t as important as being a good person.

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sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.