When whitman proclaims with confidence in the opening lines of leaves of grass: that “what i assume, you shall assume, / for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,” he is advocating one of his primary transcendentalist ideals. what is this ideal?

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.  

the sentences are -

it was all just as it was in the law courts. the doctor put on just the same air towards him as he himself put on towards an accused person.