Question

Which of the following uses a conjunction, but is not a compound sentence?

Eduardo plays the violin, but he'd rather play the flute.
Alexis is wearing a jacket, so she will stay warm all afternoon.
Erin ran, skipped, and jumped to cross the finish line.

Answer 1

The last one (Erin, ran, skipped, and jumped across the line. Because the phrase after the “and” is dependent

Answer 2

Erin ran, skipped, and jumped to cross the finish line.

Step-by-step explanation:

A compound sentence is a sentence that connects two independent clauses together. "and" is used in the third sentence only to connect the verbs "ran", "skipped", and "jumped" and not to connect two independent clauses together.