A complex sentence has one independent clause and at least one dependent clause. An independent clause (unlike adependent clause) can stand alone as asentence. Below are examples of complex sentences. In each example, the independent clause is shaded. The dependent clause is unshaded. 1  Stay in the bath until the phone rings.  The car swerved to miss Mrs Jackson, who had slipped off the pavement.
John Dalton was the first to recognize that the total pressure of a mixture of gases is the sum of the contributions of the individual components of the mixture. By convention, the part of the total pressure of a mixture that results from one component is called the partial pressure of that component.
Colour-Blindness. Daltonism Colour-blindness was discovered by John Dalton (1766-1844) when he scandalised his family by inadvertently buying his mother a set of racy underwear as a birthday present. John Dalton was so precocious that he was put in charge of the local Quaker school at the age of 12.