Before the 2014 national curriculum, there was a preferred set of terms for how sentences are constructed: simple, compound and complex. Simple sentences had one clause (i.e., one verb), without any coordination - for example:“Mr Hyde shrank back.”Compound sentences had two or more verbs,...
So, the old “simple” sentences are accounted for by “single-clause” sentences, and “compound/complex” sentences are accounted for by “multi-clause” sentences. It’s a welcome move, both grammatically and pedagogically sensible, as it should help us shift students away from thinking that...