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Hi,Im trying to analyse this sentence for my English language work... "For a number of people on the left, including your humble servant, this did not sit particularly well."I know it's a complex sentence, I think It's a subordinate clause...? Could somebody label the features and "stuff", Wouldn't normally do this but I'm against the clock. AKA tomorrow. -_-

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Anonymous Hi,Im trying to analyse this sentence for my English language work... "For a number of people on the left, including your humble servant, this did not sit particularly well."I know it's a complex sentence, I think It's a subordinate clause...? Could somebody label the features and "stuff", Wouldn't normally do this but I'm against the clock. AKA tomorrow. -_-

No, it's not a complex sentence; it's the simple one. A simple sentence is the one which contains one finite verb, here: "did not sit".

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Anonymous Hi,Im trying to analyse this sentence for my English language work... "For a number of people on the left, including your humble servant, this did not sit particularly well."I know it's a complex sentence, I think It's a subordinate clause...? Could somebody label the features and "stuff", Wouldn't normally do this but I'm against the clock. AKA tomorrow. -_-

"For a number of people on the left, including your humble servant, this did not sit particularly well."

"this" - a subject;
"did not sit" - a verb;
"particularly well" an adverbial describing the verb "did not sit";
"For a number of people on the left, including your humble servant," - a prepositional phrase (with its participle complement: "including your humble servant,") which does the job of an adverbial, used here to say more about the thought expressed in the main clause "...this did not sit particularly well."

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