I'd strongly suggest using one. It's clearly a compound predicate, but the two "actions" are in such contrast to one another, they need to be separated in some way for clarity. It would make perfect sense to complete the compound

Hello, Amy, rejecting any of the sentences and condemning them as absolutely incorrect would be a serious flaw in linguistic thinking, but we may still make use of these categories (correct/incorrect) when explaining neat areas of grammar to our

The more Angry Face tried not to think about the deer , the more he thought about it and the more frustrated he became. Can I write this sentence without any commas? Must I put a comma after "it"? I think that "the

The more Angry Face tried not to think about the deer , the more he thought about it and the more frustrated he became. Can I write this sentence without any commas? Must I put a comma after "it"? I think that "the more he

there still exists a tendency to put English in a mould originally intended for Latin I agree, but I don't see how it applies in this case. It seems to me that the majority of languages (if not all) have sentences that divide into subjects and

Thus, in a sentence such as I washed my face and brushed my teeth and went to bed the predicate is everything except for I , which is a subject (by denying that one automatically accepts the viewpoint that the sentence is a compound one, with

(...continued) ... 'They have appeared on message boards.' and ' spread by word of mouth.' Such a phenomenon is technically known as polypredication . Second, punctuation comes in handy, as the comma in such cases usually indicates

I thought have was needed before spread to keep a single tense. That would be a good solution: They have appeared on message boards and in blogs and have spread by word of mouth. There are no dependent clauses here, by

Hi The simple answer is yes, but there’s more to it than that. The verb ‘stay’ is a linking verb (aka a copular verb). What it links here is the subject (‘the paint’) with the entire sequence ’looking good for many years’ , which although

It is predicative, since it is in the predicate of the sentence, i.e. it follows the verb.