Question

Which best describes the underlined words in the sentence?

Paula, Harriet, and Marshall went to the observatory to look at the stars.



A.
simple subject


B.
compound subject


C.
complete subject

Answer 1

Paula, Harriet, Marshall, are underlined.

Answer 2

c

Answer 3

Hm. This is a trick question! A complete subject is all of the subject, not just the nouns. It includes any and all modifying words, like adjectives.

A compound subject is a subject made up of more that one element, and put together with and, or, either/or, neither/nor.

Since there are no modifiers in the subject, Paula, Harriet, and Marshall would be a complete subject.
However, since there is more than one element in the subject, 3 in fact, it's also a compound subject.

Can you use more than one answer?

Answer 4

only 1. @Becki