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.
A brief history of his life: Between his life and his death, John Dalton made his living as a teacher and public lecturer. He began teaching when he was 12. He taught for 10 years at a Quaker boarding school in Kendal, and then he moved on to a teaching position at the city of Manchester. Once he got into atomism, he calculated atomic weights and came up with his Atomic Theory.