Identifying Compound Subjects

____ is never part of a prepositional phrase.

• A verb

• The subject

• The phrase

• The presposition

A ____ consists of two or more subjects that are joined by a conjunction and that have the same verb.

• common subject

• special subject

• predicate subject

• compound subject

A compound subject consists of two or more subjects that are joined by a ____ and have the same ____.

• verb; conjunction

• and; or

• verb; phrase

• conjunction; verb

The most common conjunctions are:

• and/for

• either/or

• and/or

• neither/nor

The subject is never part of the ____.

• particle phrase

• verbal phrase

• predicate

• president

Identify the compound subject:

The national parks and monuments of the United States include many of the world's most spectacular landforms.

• parks and monuments

• parks, monuments

• United States, landforms

• world's, landforms

Answer explanation

The answer "parks and monuments" is incorrect because the word and is a conjunction, which is not part of the subject.

Identify the compound subject:

The Grand Canyon and the waterfalls of Yosemite are examples of landforms shaped by erosion.

• Canyon, waterfalls

• waterfalls, Yosemite

• Grand Canyon, waterfalls

• landforms, erosion

Identify the compound subject:

Water, wind, and other natural forces are continuing the age-old erosion of landforms.

• Water, wind, forces

• Water, wind

• Water, wind, and other natural forces

• erosion, landforms

Identify the compound subject:

On the Colorado Plateau, for example, natural bridges and arches, like the one in the photograph on the left, have been produced by erosion.

• natural bridges and arches

• bridges, arches

• photograph, left

• Colorado Plateau, erosion

Identify the compound subject:

Likewise, Skyline Arch and Landscape Arch in Utah are two natural arches formed by erosion.

• Skyline Arch and Landscape Arch

• Arch and Arch

• Skyline Arch, Landscape Arch

• Likewise, Utah