The hazards of oil drilling were demonstrated when an oil rig in the north sea exploded. this sentence is a) simple b) compound c) complex d) compound-complex

The sentence is c)

A complex sentence

The sentence is complex because it has a dependent clause (when an oil rig in the North Sea exploded) introduced by the subordinating conjunction when and it is joined to an independen clause:

[The hazards of oil drilling were demonstrated (when an oil rig in the North Sea exploded.)]

The sentence (when an oil rig in the North Sea exploded) is thought to be a dependent clause because it does not contain a complete thougth or idea, and it is related to the independent clause, which in turn, represents a complete idea and can stand on its own. In other words, the independent clause does not require futher information because it is complete.

1# the answer is c

2#the answer is a

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .