Once you have decided that keeping chickens is feasible, which breed will suit you? If you sort out your priorities, you will find this out. You need to decide whether you want lots of eggs per week or only a few; meat; beauty; rare breeds; pets; your vegetable garden weeded. No single type or breed will fulfill all of these requirements and it is so important that you like the look of the hens you buy as they will become part of the family. Source: Roberts, Victoria. Raise Happy Chickens and Other Poultry. New York: Macmillan, 2010. xii. Print.

Based on this excerpt, what is the author’s purpose for writing?

to persuade
to inform
to express self
to entertain

c. to understand which information will best persuade your readers. (apex) correct answer.

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.