Shelbi Russey: Attempt Which of the following is a simple sentence?
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American minister and activist for civil rights in the
1950s and 1960s.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American minister who was also an activist for civil
rights in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American minister; later, in the 1950s and 1960s,
he was an activist for civil rights,
Martin Luther King Jr, who was an American minister, was also an activist, and
he fought for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American minister and activist for civil rights in the  1950s and 1960s.

Explanation:

A simple sentence is made up of an independent clause along with one single subject and a verb with a compliment.

In the first option, there is a single independent clause which is that MLK was an American ministers and activist. The subject is MLK and the verb and compliment are the years he was active.

The other options have multiple clauses.

type of error:

the error in the sentence is a "dangling modifier". a dangling modifier is a phrase, word or clause that "dangles" because there is not target to modify. in this case, "after mopping the floor" is the dangling modifier since it has no word to modify. the noun "house" cannot mop the floor; therefore there is a mistake in the writing of the sentence.

samuel gompers was an extremely important person in the american labor movement, being him an employee all his life he devoted himself to fight for the rights of his pairs, he believed they all had the right to have better thing and that they all were working for them but the factory workers were greedy, ambitions and socialist people for him who he didn't have a good concept of.

he gave so many speeches and led so many strikes and protest to fight for equality which he considered employers didn't want to accept, so he had an absolutely negative opinion of them.