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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Good or bad example of a Compound Sentence?

Was doing some thinking and came up with this variation of a sentence I made, would like to know if my examples are correct or not.

Compound sentence:
He is very strong, so he loves to play rugby.

Making it into a simple sentence:
He is very strong and loves to play rugby.

I would like to know if my way of stating the compound sentence is correct or an error. Thanks for your help.
  

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Your sentences are indeed compound and simply respectively, but the 2nd is not a completely accurate conversion of the 1st. More exact would be this: He is very strong so loves to play rugby.

— Mister Micawber

  • Your sentences are indeed compound and simply respectively, but the 2nd is not a completely accurate conversion of the 1st.
  • More exact would be this: He is very strong so loves to play rugby.
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Your sentences are indeed compound and simply respectively, but the 2nd is not a completely accurate conversion of the 1st. More exact would be this:

He is very strong so loves to play rugby.
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An additional question - does a compound sentence need to have two or more subjects? This is why I thought my above compound sentence, "He is very strong, so he loves to play rugby" might be erroneous.

In addition, how about I make a change to the first question, changing "so" to "and."

He is very strong, and he loves to play rugby.
He is very strong and loves to
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An additional question - does a compound sentence need to have two or more subjects? This is why I thought my above compound sentence, "He is very strong, so he loves to play rugby" might be erroneous.-- Don't confuse grammar with life. Yes, a compound sentence needs two subjects, and yours does: 'He' and 'he'.

In addition, how about I make a change to the first question, chang
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