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Re: simple/compound predicate

Essentially, yes. Each VP must be capable of standing alone as the predicate, as in the second example I gave. In your original example, the two verbs share the same direct object, "guns" so the whole thing is just one predicate (or "simple" as you would say).

The same applies to your latest example:

The kids climbed and played on the jungle gym.

Again, we have a coordination of two verb predicators, i.e. "climbed" and "played". They share the adjunct (a preposition phrase) "on the jungle gym" which is part of the single predicate.


Incidentally, grammarians do not usually talk of 'compound predicates'. Instead we talk of various kinds of coordination within the verb phrase.

PaulM

Re: simple/compound predicate

Hello!
Do you agree with what Oxfrord online grammar dictionary says about the subject of a sentence-they that the subject is generally the person or thing that the sentence is about. And could you write why you agree/don't agree with that, please?

Thanks in advance!