"So much of what drove Brian now was instinct, feelings, what he used to call hunches but what he now thought of as logical flows of information from his subconscious based on knowledge that he sometimes did not quite understand." (Paulsen, 2003, p.62)
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This is a compound-complex sentence. First, it contains two independent clauses, "So much of what drove Brian now was instinct, feelings" and "that he sometimes did not quite understand." In the first independent clause the subject is "So much of what drove Brian now" and the verb is "was." In the second one, "he" is the subject and "did not" is the verb. Secondly, it has two dependent clauses, "what he used to call hunches" and "but what he now thought of as logical flows of information from his subconscious based on knowledge" joined by a subordinating conjunction "what" and a coordinating conjunction "but." In the first dependent clause the subject is "he" and the verb is "used." In the other dependent clause "he" works as the subject and "thought" is the verb.
This is a compond-complex sentence because it has three independent clauses( so much....on knowledge) and one dependent clause( that he ... understand)
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