Compound predicate help needed

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Anonymous  #409734  Sun, 26 Aug 07 07:59 PM

Is the only requirment for a compound predicate that it has to have the same subject as the first, even the first predicate is essential to understand the second one?

e.g., I'm not a Communist and don't expect to be treated as such.

  
Philip  #409772  Sun, 26 Aug 07 11:01 PM
 Anonymous wrote:

Is the only requirment for a compound predicate that it has to have the same subject as the first, even the first predicate is essential to understand the second one?

e.g., I'm not a Communist and don't expect to be treated as such.

You are correct.  If there are two subjects (even if the second one expressed is the same as the first), you have a compound sentence.
  
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