Question

Read this extract and select all the compound sentences.

The thing I like least about the weekend is Sunday evening. It's the furthest point away from Friday, but it's also the closest point to yet another Monday morning. I'd give anything to win the lottery. It'd save me from yet another commute to work, battling through the honking traffic and stinking fumes. According to the Medical Gazette, fighting through the rush hour causes excess stress hormones to build up in your blood stream. Over time, all that damage takes years off your life. For me, that's yet another good reason to hit the snooze button and slide back under the duvet. It's only Sunday morning after all!

Answer 1

Compound sentences use FANBOYS (for, and, not, but, or, yet, so), which are coordinating conjunctions to combine two complete sentences. You must also use a comma after the full complete sentence (before the FANBOYS). For example: I like to teach grammar, but some students don’t like to learn it. In this excerpt, there is only one compound sentence, and it is the second sentence of the paragraph (It’s the furthest point away...)

Answer 2

It's the furthest point away from Friday, but it's also the closest point to yet another Monday morning.

Step-by-step explanation:

A compound sentence is a sentence that has, at least, two independent clauses. This means that two simple sentences with a subject and a predicate each make up the compound sentence. These independent clauses can be joined by a semicolon or by a coordinating conjunction, such as but, or, yet, and, for, etc., to make up the sentence.

Within this extract, the only sentence that meet these requirements is It's the furthest point away from Friday, but it's also the closest point to yet another Monday morning.