Thanks. Missed 'individual'... Mind I'd stick with the K&R approach and refer to compound statements as blocks in a beginner's primer. What I wouldn't do is "explain" in a way that will probably have a beginner rescanning multiple times - I had to do a double take:
"Other lines that are not starting a function, ending it or defining control end every statement in C with a ; character"
"Other lines that are not starting a function, ending it or defining control end every statement in C with a ; character"