Read the sentence. The tracking party followed their prey to the river, but there they lost the trail, even though they had several bloodhounds with them. What type of sentence is this?

The sentence has two independent clauses: “The tracking party followed their prey to the river” and “there they lost the trail.” They are joined by “but.” It also has the dependent clause “even though they had several bloodhounds with them,” so the sentence is compound-complex.

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