Temperance promotes health, intemperance destroys it. Here the independent clauses are joined to each other by their very position in the sentence—connected without any conjunction. This kind of connection is common.
Sentences made up of independent clauses we call +Compound Sentences.
+DEFINITION.—A Clause is a part of a sentence containing' a subject and its predicate.+
+DEFINITION.—A Dependent Clause is one used as an adjective, an adverb, or a noun.+
+DEFINITION.—An Independent Clause is one not dependent on another clause.+
SENTENCES CLASSIFIED WITH RESPECT TO FORM.
+DEFINITION.—A Simple Sentence is a sentence that contains but one subject and one predicate, either or both of which may be compound.+
+DEFINITION.—A Complex Sentence is a sentence composed of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.+
+DEFINITION.—A Compound Sentence is a sentence composed of two or more independent clauses.+
Analysis.