SImple sentences with a compound predicate

Simple sentences can have a compound subject or a compound predicate.

America’s best known novelists, journalists and editors attended a conference in New York last week. (compound subject)

Yellow-throated warblers, red-breasted robins, and flightless rails were

pictured in her new bird identification guide. (compound subject; nouns separated by modifiers).

Kate sang, danced,played the violin with equal competence, passion, and enthusiasm. (compound predicate)

Her last semester in school, the brilliant student received top marks on all her final exams, graduated with honors, and was interviewed for a junior faculty position at the university. (compound predicate; verbs separated by modifiers)

What is a compound subject?

A compound subject consists of two or more simple subjects joined by a conjunction and, or, or nor. The subjects share the same verb.

Rangers and loggers (compound subject) explore and protect the forest.

What is a compound predicate?

A compound predicate consists of two or more verbs or verb phrases that can be sometimes connected by the particle to whereas the simple predicates are usually connected by and, but, or nor. The verbs share the same subject.

Forms of a compound predicate.

Verb+verb;

Verb+gerund

Link Verb+adjective

Link verb + noun

Rangers explore and protect the forest (compound predicate).