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Question
Combine the pair of sentence below into simple, complex, and compound.
The students were intelligent. They could answer the questions correctly.
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Solution
Simple: The students being intelligent, they could answer the questions correctly.
Compound: The students were intelligent and so they could answer the questions correctly.
Complex: As the students were intelligent, they could answer the questions correctly.
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