What is the central idea of the passage "puritan laws and character"

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answer:

Author's main purpose in this excerpt is to laud the Puritans for, despite the harshness of their religion, their love of liberty and hatred of tyranny and their courage coming from the fear of God. While he explains that they would not allow for example public displays of say kissing and would put the guilty person in the stocks for this and for example those who didn't attend church regularly would be penalized, all in all they displayed more freedom than much of their European counterparts of the time.

Explanation:

a complex sentence consists of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.  

to write complex sentences, we must use subordinating conjunctions.  

all the complex sentences begin with a subordinating conjunction and when it occurs, a comma must be place at the end of the dependent clause. on the contrary, if the sentence begins with an independent clause, then no comma is used.

after  

although  

as  

because  

before  

if  

since  

when  

for example,  

after she won the competition, she became very popular.  

although my father was hurt, he continued fighting for his rights.  

as all of you got a ten, you will be able to leave early today.  

before he went to the war, he asked his parents to bless him.  

if it is cold, i won’t go out.  

since you didn’t bring the homework, you will get low grades.  

when it is hot in the town, everyone goes to the beach.