Compound predicate nominative

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Guest  #29540  Tue, 11 May 04 04:42 AM
please give an example of a compound predicate nominative used in a complete sentence.
  
miriam  #29542  Tue, 11 May 04 05:22 AM
"The specialties of the house are chocolate fondue and crêpes suzette."

"chocolate fondue and crêpes suzette" is the subject complement, in this case predicate nominative. This is a compound construction which has two heads: "chocolate fondue" and "crêpes suzette". "And" is the coordinating conjunction.

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Anonymous  #137483  Thu, 15 Sep 05 02:23 AM
She pitched a perfect game and got a gold medal.
  
Anonymous  #139517  Tue, 20 Sep 05 01:39 AM
Can you give me an example of a compound subject and compound predicate?
  
CalifJim  #139527  Tue, 20 Sep 05 02:17 AM
She pitched a perfect game and got a gold medal.

Sorry!  There is no predicate nominative in that sentence.

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miriam  #139669  Tue, 20 Sep 05 10:55 AM

"She pitched a perfect game and got a gold medal." --> Simple sentence, compound predicate (it has more than one main verb). Both verbs are transitive, so "a perfect game" and "a gold medal" are objects, not predicatives.

Compound subject: "My sister, my husband and I went dancing last Saturday."

Compound predicate: "He has been sneezing and coughing all morning."

Miriam

 

  
Anonymous  #144707  Wed, 05 Oct 05 07:06 AM

   I found it at  www.scientificpsychic.com/grammar

  
Cutienemo04  #172107  Tue, 20 Dec 05 05:35 AM

Compound predicate nominatives are in the following example:

 

My best friends are Betty and Veronica.  There are two

In,

My favorite drink is water, that is a predicate nominative, but there's only one.

  
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Anonymous  #172231  Tue, 20 Dec 05 12:40 PM

Dear Miriam,

Is my analysis correct ?

1) "My sister, my husband and I went dancing last Saturday."

a) My sister, my husband and I = subject

b)  went dancing = verb ?

c) last Saturday = adverbial of time

2) "He has been sneezing and coughing all morning."

a) He = subject

b)  has been sneezing and coughing = verb

c)  all morning = adverbial of time

See you,

Hela

  
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