A. She washed the shells and dried them in the sun.
<span> The sentence is “She washed the shells and dried them in the sun”. A compound predicate actually consists of two or more than two verbs having the same subject and joined by any conjunction like “or” or “and”. As far as the given sentence is concerned, we see that “She” is the subject and the subject is doing two different things. This is the reason behind taking this sentence as a compound predicate. </span>
They are found worldwide in tropical and warm coastal waters, lagoons, and coral reefs.
I’d say:
I had a hard time deciding whether to write an essay about the works of “Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, Gwendolyn Brooks” because the rest of the punctuations doesn’t make sense.
But actually it should be:
I had a hard time deciding whether to write an essay about the works of Eudora Welty, Joan Didion, and Gwendolyn Brooks.
(Without the quotation marks and inclusion the word “and” before “Gwendolyn”)
Answer:
B
Explanation:
A fused sentence is a run-on sentence in which two independent clauses run together with no proper punctuation mark like a period or semi-colon, or conjunction like <em>and </em>or <em>but </em>between them. In sentence number B, there is no punctuation mark or conjunction; hence, it is a fused sentence.
there mother stayed behind to her ailing baby.