compound sentence

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compound sentence

Post by hanuman_2000 » Tue Dec 24, 2013 10:50 am

Hello,

1. He washed and cleaned the dishes.

Is the above a compound sentence?

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Re: compound sentence

Post by Alan » Mon Jan 06, 2014 6:08 am

Despite its containing two finite verbs, most linguists would classify this as a simple sentence.
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