Simple Sentences: Compound Subjects-Predicates

In the last lesson, compound verbs were reviewed. In this lesson you see that you can have a compound subject AND compound verb. Here is how you diagram them:

Compound predicate
The cat howled and scratched ferociously.

Compound subject and compound predicate
Juanita and Celso worked hard and then rested.

Three subjects
Juanita, Federica, and Celso are working.

Both the subject and the verb can be compound. Example: The bell and the siren rang and rang.

Instructions: Find the subject, verb and conjunctions in these sentences.

1. The boys and the girls ran and played in the field.

2. She and I stopped and stared at the sight.

3. Both the team and the coach jumped up and yelled with the last out.

4. Jeff, Jed, and Jim will be in school or will be home in bed.

5. Where have Jay and Eric been swimming and hiking?

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