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posted by  E.G.K on 9/5/2008 11:45:41 AM  |  status: Live  

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Which of the following sentences has a compound predicate?
(a) She raced along the path to beat him to the beach.
(b) While he swam,she collected shells.
(c) She washed the shells and dried them in the sun.
(d) She placed the shells in a plastic bag while he dried himself off.

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posted by ronzel on 9/5/2008 12:02:29 PM  |  status: Live
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The predicate of a sentence is everything that follows the subject. The predicate will have verbs, adverbs, maybe some nouns and some other types of words.

I would say that the sentence that has the compound predicate in this question would be C.

It says she washed the shells and dried them in the sun.

This is only answer that has a single subject and has the subject doing two things within one given sentence. The sentence could very easily be written as two sentences as follows:

She washed the shells. She dried them in the sun.

This is the only answer that you would be able to break apart into two sentences and still have the same subject.

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posted by John Walker on 9/6/2008 7:41:43 AM  |  status: Live
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(c) She washed the shells and dried them in the sun.
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