Question

Read the sentences. Original Sentences The Edmunds also needed a guide. They required transport across the ice. Combined Sentence The Edmunds also needed a guide and transport across the ice. Does the combined sentence use a compound subject, compound verb, or compound object?
a. compound subject
b. compound verb
c. compound object

Answer 1

C. Compound object because The Edmunds (1 subject) also needed (1 verb) a GUIDE and TRANSPORT (2 objects) across the ice.

Answer 2

The correct answer is C. Compound object

Explanation:

In grammar, the word compound is used to describe a subject, verb, object or any other section in a sentence that encloses two or more elements creating a long subject, verb or object. For example, the words "Charlie and Agatha" are a compound subject, the words "play and sing" can be a compound verb and the words "a flower and a vase" can be a compound object. This means, in the case of the sentence "The Edmunds also needed a guide and transport across the ice", this sentence has a compound object as the words "a guide and transport across the ice" work as an object as they are the entities affected by the verb and they are classified as compound as the object comprises two different elements "a guide" and "transport across the ice".