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n the following sentence - Jails in Britain were overcrowded so prisoners were sent by ship to the British colonies in America - the underlined structure is an example of:Question 7Select one:nominalisationa commanda complex sentencepassive voice

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n the following sentence - Jails in Britain were overcrowded so prisoners were sent by ship to the British colonies in America - the underlined structure is an example of:Question 7Select one:nominalisationa commanda complex sentencepassive voice

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The underlined structure in the sentence - "Jails in Britain were overcrowded so prisoners were sent by ship to the British colonies in America" - is an example of a complex sentence. A complex sentence is a sentence that contains one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. In this case, "Jails in Britain were overcrowded" is the independent clause, and "so prisoners were sent by ship to the British colonies in America" is the dependent clause.

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