Example: Aunt Betty took the filler, and her sisters manned the sails.
2006-08-30 10:52:03 · 4 answers · asked by BQ1982 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
Your example is a compound sentence. But you can also have a simple sentence with compound subjects ("Bert and Nan ran down the hill") or compound predicates (He watched and waited for his father's return").
Congratulations on caring about sentence structure! Unfortunately many participants here wouldn't know a predicate if it bit them on the big toe.
2006-08-30 11:26:03 · answer #1 · answered by Maple 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, if it's a compound sentence. Here the subjects would be "Aunt Betty" and "her sisters," and the predicates would be "took the filler" and "manned the sails," respectively. I'm not sure if "and" would be part of the complete subject or not in the second half.
2006-08-30 17:56:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it can. Your example is a compound sentence, with two independent clauses and a conjunction ("and") to connect them together.
2006-08-30 18:10:59 · answer #3 · answered by gburgmommy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES it can BQ1982
2006-08-30 17:59:27 · answer #4 · answered by jackofalltds 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋