Evaluate the Following Statement

question 49

Essay

Evaluate the following statement. "Large national debts harm all citizens because they decrease the rate of investment. This will cause the rate of growth of the capital stock to fall, and eventually living standards will fall."

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Definitions:

Subordinate Clause

A clause that cannot stand alone as a sentence because it does not express a complete thought.

Compound Sentence

A sentence that contains at least two independent clauses, usually connected by a conjunction.

Independent Clause

A group of words that contains a subject and a verb and expresses a complete thought, capable of standing alone as a sentence.

Dependent Clauses

Parts of a sentence that cannot stand alone because they do not express a complete thought.