Question

Can anyone help me solve these?

Identify each of the following sentences as either simple or compound. Write simp for simple or comp for compound on the line before the sentence. Then underline each subject once and each verb twice.

1. Male Muslims pray at the mosque on Fridays, and these special Friday mosques are often large buildings.

2. A courtyard and a prayer hall usually are important features of a Friday mosque.

3. The prayer hall has no seats; it has carpets instead.

4. The call to prayer at first was delivered from the roof of a house but now comes
from a minaret, or tower.

5. Every mosque has at least one minaret, and some have as many as six.

6. Some Islamic countries have square minarets; others have spiral shapes.

7. The builders of some mosques imitated Christian churches and often used columns from older buildings.

8. Many mosques have rich decorations, but none have pictures of humans or animals.

9. Flowers and geometrical designs are permitted and often ornament the walls.

10. Some mosques use a combination design; they combine domes with several slender
minarets.

Answer 1

1. Compound sentence. Verbs: pray, are.

2. Simple sentence. Verb: are.

3. Simple sentence. Verb: has.

4. Compound sentence. Verbs: call, was, comes.

5. Simple sentence. Verb: has, have.

6. Compound sentence. Verb: have

7. Compound sentence. Verbs: imitated, used.

8. Compound sentence. verbs: have, have.

9. Simple sentence. Verb: are.

10. Simple sentence. Verb: use, combine.

Step-by-step explanation:

A simple sentence is one that has a single independent clause (which is one that can convey a complete thought, without needing a complement). In this case, this sentence has only one subject and one predicate.

Compound sentences, on the other hand, have more than one independent clause, more than one subject and more than one predicate.

Verbs, in turn, are the words that indicate that some action is taking place.