Can you please provide background information to your story? There can be no information created with the paragraph listed. Please let me know when you’ve done that and I’ll be happy to help!
He had great confidence in American Business. He believed that it was not only prosperous
but stable. It was something that would
provide not only for you but generations to come. He was probably shocked and traumatized when
the Depression hit as many Americans suddenly found themselves struggling to
make ends meet.
The phrase <em>the antique fire truck </em>is used as a complete subject, because you are including all of these words to form a subject, so it cannot be a simple one (just one word). It isn't a compound subject either, because that would be two or more words connected with a conjunction <em>and, </em>or some other one.
C. Bill raced after the ball and threw it back to Cheryl.