Question

Original sentences:Sir Edmund was anxious to explore Antarctica. So was his son, Cecil.

Combined sentence:Sir Edmund and his son, Cecil, were anxious to explore Antarctica.
Does the combined sentence use a compound subject, compound verb, or compound object?
compound verb
compound object
compound subject

Answer 1

It is compound subject

Answer 2

The correct answer is C. compound subject.

If you compare the two sentences above, you will see that the combined one combined the two subjects - Sir Edmund and his son, Cecil. Both words are the subjects of their respective sentences, but when you combine them into one subject using the conjunction and, it turns from a simple subject into a compound subject. To sum up, a compound subject contains more than one item connected by the word and.

Given that nothing changed in the verb was/were (it is still simple) and the object Antarctica (it is also still simple), those two cannot be correct answers.