Which type of sentence is this?
After a potato blight destroyed Ireland's potato crop and precipitated the Great Famine of
1845, the country lost twenty-five percent of its population to starvation and emigration.
-Simple
-Compound
-Complex
-Compound-Complex
There is a dependent clause in the beginning, and after the comma there is no conjunction (F.A.N.B.O.Y.S), and the second part is an independent clause. The complex sentence is 'dependent, independent'. You're welcome.
