"A compound sentence is two independent clauses together with no subordinate clauses, and a complex sentence…" Scribble, scribble, scribble "…is a sentence with an independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses. So, therefore…" Scribble, scribble, scribble "…a compound-complex sentence is a sentence that has two independent clauses and one or more subordinate clauses. Any questions? Yes Wheeler?"

"Er, yeah… What's an independent clause?"

"That's a clause that can stand by itself, Wheeler."

"Like Santa Claus?"

Ms. Jono sighed. Normally, she would've gotten very pissy, but ever since she had found a new, wonderful beau, she had been a lot nicer to her students… and besides, it was obvious that Joey wasn't kidding. The poor mutt—er, excuse her, boy (darn Kaiba's influences on the whole class!)—looked pitifully confused, almost to a point where he looked morose.

"No, Wheeler," she said patiently. "It's like a sentence that isn't a fragment. Like, for example, in this compound sentence…"

"This sucks monkey," Bakura murmured to himself as he ate a banana. Tristan laughed a little bit, but he was trying to pay attention as well to their English lesson. Bakura rolled his eyes, seeing as he did have quite a kickin' knowledge of all things English.

Miho's head, three seats in front of him, was very blue.

Hmmm…

"So, Joey, what are the two independent clauses in this sentence?" Ms. Jono asked, shifting one hand onto her hip so as to hold her pointer more easily.

"Um… 'Jon woke up' and 'got out of bed?'"

"Very good Joey. Lucky guess." Joey smiled nervously. "Doesn't anybody know why you don't need to write Jon after the preposition? Bakura?"

"Because Jon is implied."

"Yes. Alright, so, Kaiba, how can you link two simple sentences together to form a compound sentence?"

"With a semi-colon or a preposition."

"Such as?"

"But, so, and, etc."

"Good class!" Ms. Jono positively beamed. "You're actually learning something!"

Tea rolled her eyes and passed a note to Miho. Miho opened it. In Tea's loopy cursive, it read:

I'm Ms. Jono! My class is finally learning something! OMG LIEK TOTALLY FREAK-OUT!

Miho giggled, trying to think of something to write back.

"Miss Nosaka?"

"Um, yes?" Miho straightened up and looked straight at her teacher, trying to look as if she knew what they were talking about. English was her absolute worst subject, ever. Besides that woodshop fiasco… why did they make girls take that class, anyway! Thank goodness she had finished that last year!

"I—"

Pt. A crumpled up piece of paper hit Miho squarely on the top of her head. Bakura mouthed the word, "Yes!", looking strangely Ryou-like before he sat down. Ms. Jono glared at him.

"Bakura, detention."

"Again ma'am?"

"Again."

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