Once upon a time, a boy with no magical powers managed to get into magic school by cheating on the test. After he was admitted, he studied hard and learned all of the magical incantations by heart, even though nothing out of the ordinary happened when he spoke the words aloud. Whenever a test came around, he always found a way to pass it by performing regular, non-magical stage tricks: pulling rabbits out of
hats, guessing people's ages, and so on.

Eventually, the school headmasters discovered that the boy had no
powers and kicked him out of the school. He wasn't a true wizard, after
all. the boy had spent three years fooling real wizards into
thinking that he had powers, so that by the time he was expelled, he
was already the greatest stage magician in the world.

what are the lines. come on!

sentences vary by structure as well as by function. there are compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.

simple sentence

i like to read.

a simple sentence has one independent clause.

compound sentence

i like to read, and i also like to write.

a compound sentence includes more than one independent clause, connected by a coordinating conjunction (and, but, for, nor, or, so, or yet).

complex sentence

i prefer to read books that are bestsellers.

a complex sentence includes one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses. (a dependent clause is one that cannot stand alone.) types of dependent clauses include relative clauses (i kicked the boy who pinched me), adverb clauses (i am going home now because i have a curfew), and noun clauses (i don't know what to do next).

compound-complex sentence

although i prefer to read current bestsellers, i do like to read old agatha christie mysteries, and i also like some 20th-century science fiction.

compound-complex sentences take a bunch of clauses (multiple independent clauses, and one or more dependent clauses) and toss them together like a salad. although these sentences take practice to write in a grammatically correct fashion, they can hold a tremendous amount of meaning, and are common in academic writing.

123 are right hope ths