Question

Read the passage from "The Venomous Ray." It is recommended that beachgoers do the "stingray shuffle" when walking through the water. By shuffling their feet while walking, swimmers usually startle the rays and send them into deeper water. Stingrays can be friendly in a marine environment, and some of them can even be hand fed and petted. However, no one can predict when a stingray will attack, so it is important to remember that great caution must be exercised and implemented at all times. Which sentence from the passage is a compound sentence

Answer 1

The compound sentence in the passage is "Stingrays can be friendly in a marine environment, and some of them can even be hand fed and petted," as it contains two independent clauses connected by "and."

Step-by-step explanation:

Looking at the provided passage from "The Venomous Ray," we can identify the compound sentence by finding a sentence that has at least two independent clauses usually connected by a coordinating conjunction. In the passage, the sentence "Stingrays can be friendly in a marine environment, and some of them can even be hand fed and petted" is the compound sentence. It contains two independent clauses: "Stingrays can be friendly in a marine environment" and "some of them can even be hand fed and petted," which are joined by the conjunction "and."