<u>The lamp</u> <u>fell over and landed on the sleeping cat.</u>
<h3>subject + predicate (with two verbs)</h3>
The example is a simple sentence with compound verbs.
A simple sentence is formed by a subject and a predicate.
A simple sentence is an independent clause since it can stand on its own (it is not subordinated to a main clause as this happens with complex sentences).
Simple sentences contain one main idea (when the sentence contains two or more main ideas, they are compound sentences).