Read the given sentences. The new safety requirements were enacted based on scientists’ recommendations. Fewer accidents occurred. Which combines the sentences to create one complex sentence?

A complex sentence has an independent clause and a dependent clause. In choice C, “the new safety requirements were enacted” is the independent clause, and “so that fewer accidents occurred” is a dependent clause explaining the result. The other choices join two independent clauses rather than creating a complex sentence.

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