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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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What type of sentence is this run on,sentence fragment,compound or simple

The aardvark lives in Africa and eats termites?

And this one to

The kangaroo lives in Australia and consumes grass.
  

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They are simple clauses whose predicates have the form of a coordination of two verb phrases. The aardvark [ lives in Africa and eats termites ]. The kangaroo [ lives in Australia and consumes grass ].

  • They are simple clauses whose predicates have the form of a coordination of two verb phrases.
  • The aardvark [ lives in Africa and eats termites ].
  • The kangaroo [ lives in Australia and consumes grass ].
  • Similarly, the subject of a clause may be a coordination of noun phrases: [ The aardvark and the kangaroo ] respectively live in Africa and Australia .
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They are simple clauses whose predicates have the form of a coordination of two verb phrases.

The aardvark [lives in Africa and eats termites].
The kangaroo [lives in Australia and consumes grass].

Similarly, the subject of a clause may be a coordination of noun phrases:

[The aardvark and the kangar

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