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Question:: Suzanne wanted to be here, but she cannot come because her car is in the shop.
Answer:: The answer compound sentence is not correct.
Explanation:: This is a compound-complex sentence. First, it contains two independent clauses—Suzanne wanted to be here and she cannot come because her car is in the shop—joined by the co-ordinating conjunction but. The second independent clause, however, contains the dependent clause because her car is in the shop making the sentence complex as well as compound.