More on Compounds

Compound sentences are sentences joined by a conjunction -- conjunctions are words like for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so. Read the linked page.

You can tell them apart from prepositions because they link two things of similar kinds.... either nouns, verbs or whole sentences. Let's go on to the next sentence for another example.

It is a very social animal and may share a nest and live (in groups) (of eight or more adults and juveniles).

This sentence is also a compound sentence -- it actually has three sections.

• The first part is Subject/Verb/Predicate Nominative "It is a very social animal"
  
• The second part is Subject/Verb/Direct Object "(It) may share a nest"
  
• The third is Subject/Verb. "(It may) live ...."
  

The subject for all three parts is "IT". "It" is a pronoun, meaning a word that substitutes for another word. It means "northern flying squirrel" in this sentence.

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